Daily Mail: Four Navy aircrew parachute to safety moments before E-2C Hawkeye plane crashes while on training flight in Virginia
* An $80 million military plane has crashed in Virginia, near the town of Nelsonia
* The E-2C Hawkeye had two pilots and two crew members on board
* All four parachuted to safety when the plane got into difficulties
* The plane was based out of Norfolk, Virginia
An $80 million military plane has crashed in Virginia, with four people parachuting to safety shortly before it hit the ground.
The crash happened at 3:50pm near Nelsonia, along Mason Road, on Monday afternoon.
A Navy spokesman confirmed to DailyMail.com that all four people on board - two pilots, two crew members - bailed out of the EC-2 Hawkeye before it crashed.
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More News On Yesterday's E-2C Hawkeye Crash
Navy E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning Radar Plane Crashes and Burns In Virginia -- Warzone/The Drive
UPDATED: E-2C Hawkeye Crashes Near Wallops Island, Crew Recovered Safely -- USNI News
Navy crew bails out of plane before crash during training flight -- The Hill
US Navy plane crashes in Virginia; crew found alive -- CNN
A US Navy E-2C Hawkeye crashed in Virginia, but the crew managed to bail out safely -- Business Insider
"The Navy’s Terrible Accident Record Is Now Hidden From Public View" - The Atlantic
ReplyDeleteThe Navy center on Aviation accidents use to be open or partially open website.
Knowing the accident rate and causes, lets a potential opponent know quite a bit about you material readiness, up time, potential mission completion percentages, and inventory. All the stuff you need in planning a war against the US. But The LEFTWING Atlantic is taken the let the US military be 100% transparent to the Russians and Chinese
If they know what breaks, the can get into the supply chain and make it happen more often. Of course state actors with some experience in multiple late model aircraft have a very good idea of the reliability of different components anyway. It would help smaller state actors and people like ANTIFA.
Agreed there's a balance to be had. BUT there's so so so so much corruption, incompetence and laziness in every aspect of government and humans in general that we need some form of public oversight. If trust would be higher, we wouldn't need public accountability
ReplyDeleteThe first question we should ask: with nearly a TRILLION dollar budget per year, is this an acceptable rate of incidents? And it might well be, it might just be that we have so so many training missions to be the world force, that this is just what happens at a certain rate. But then the next question in a democracy would be: do we really want to be that or have to be that? And then the generals would argue we can't let uninformed civilians decide over such topics. And they're somewhat right. But they're also accountable to the civilian branch that overrides all. The president is the highest executive and is, just like Congress and the Senate, civilians. And they hardly qualify as trustworthy and informed. Maybe misinformed. Maybe corrupt. And they don't want to give up their power that comes with their office. Hence centralisation of power, hence compartmentalised decision making and information processing, opportunities for corruption etc etc
Our system, while good in intention, just like communism, is flawed and even deadly, if not executed fully and transparently.
luckily these guys parachuted. I'm for public oversight
ReplyDeleteThese various accidents are occurring with a frequency approaching shocking.