The U.S. Navy has located the wreckage of a fighter jet that crashed during a routine training flight in mountainous terrain in Washington state. The EA-18G Growler jet from the Electronic Attack Squadron crashed east of Mount Rainier on Tuesday afternoon. The two crew members onboard are currently missing.
Search teams, including a U.S. Navy MH-60S helicopter, were dispatched from NAS Whidbey Island to locate the crew and examine the crash site. The wreckage was found on a mountainside east of Mount Rainier on Wednesday afternoon. The remote crash site is not accessible by motorized vehicles, and search teams are being deployed into the area despite expected snowfall in the Cascades over the weekend.
