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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sravasti Dasgupta

One killed after US Navy plane crashes off Virginia coast

Ryan Whittington/Ocean City Fire Department via AP

A US Navy plane with three people onboard crashed in waters near the eastern shore boundary of Virginia and Maryland on Wednesday evening, killing one person. Two others were injured.

Lieutenant commander Rob Myers, a public affairs officer with the Naval Air Force Atlantic, said the plane, US Navy E2-D Hawkeye, was conducting routine operations in the vicinity of Wallops Island, Virginia, when it crashed about 150 miles southeast of Washington, DC.

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