[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Virginia Beach jet crash

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Today the media rightfully are focusing on the emergency, but soon I  
expect renewed debate over the suitability of maintaining a busy  
Naval Air Station is such a heavily populated area. - LS]

UPDATE: Jet crash may have been caused by mechanical malfunction

By Mike Holtzclaw, Ashley Kelly, Hugh Lessig
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
April 6, 2012

VIRGINIA BEACH - A Navy official says a jet may have crashed Friday  
due to a mechanical malfunction.

The F/A-18 Hornet had just left Naval Air Station Oceana after noon  
when it crashed into the Mayfair Mews apartment complex, Captain Mark  
Weisgerber said during a news conference.

Weisgerber, with the Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic, said an initial  
investigation indicates that the crash was mechanical in nature, due  
to reports from people on the ground about a fuel spill.

A student pilot and an experienced pilot were aboard the two-seat  
jet, Weisgerber said. Both were safely ejected from the plane before  
it struck. The student pilot was seated in the front and the  
experienced pilot was in the back seat, Weisgerber said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/breaking/dp-huge-billows-of-smoke- 
visible-near-naval-air-station-oceana-20120406,0,1657821,print.story

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