Ocean Metropolis, Md. — A U.S. Navy plane with three individuals aboard crashed in waters close to the Japanese Shore boundary of Virginia and Maryland Wednesday night, killing one, authorities mentioned.
Lt. Cmdr. Rob Myers, a public affairs officer with Naval Air Pressure Atlantic, informed The Related Press the aircraft was conducting routine flight operations within the neighborhood of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down round 7:30 p.m.
The 2 injured had been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and one was discovered lifeless within the plane, an E2-D Hawkeye, Myers mentioned.
A press release launched by Myers at Naval Air Pressure Atlantic in Virginia mentioned the 2 crewmembers have accidents that are not thought-about life-threatening.
The Navy mentioned the identities of the crew members weren't being launched -- pending notification of subsequent of kin of the one whose life was misplaced and out of privateness issues for the opposite two.
The aircraft, a sophisticated tactical airborne early warning plane – a radar aircraft, CBS Information nationwide safety correspondent David Martin explains – is predicated out of Naval Station Norfolk and assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Management Squadron.
Ryan Whittington, a spokesman for Maryland's Ocean Metropolis Fireplace Division, informed The Related Press that it and different businesses had been on the scene after the aircraft went down in Chincoteague Bay close to the group of Stockton.
Whittington mentioned a volunteer hearth division in Stockton was the primary to reply after getting a name round 7:30 p.m., and different businesses assisted.
He mentioned waters within the bay had been comparatively calm as divers from his hearth division and one different helped rescue two individuals from the aircraft. He added that they had been taken to a hospital.
"One individual was caught within the aircraft,'' Whittington mentioned, including crews had been working to take away the third individual.
Whittington mentioned emergency responders had been staged at a George Island Touchdown, an space simply on the Maryland aspect of the road with Virginia on the west aspect of Chincoteague Bay. The Japanese Shore location is about 150 miles east-southeast of Washington, D.C