Navy Plane Missing Off North Carolina

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Search continues for 3 aviators missing off carrier Truman

By LOUIS HANSEN, The Virginian-Pilot
August 16, 2007 | Last updated 12:44 PM Aug. 16

 
"Sucked a bird"? Did it go into the engine? Or just through the prop? Wouldn't it have to get past the prop to get into the turbine?
Into the engine and canned it and yes, it got through the prop (but we'll never know if in one piece).

I happen to be there with VP-65 doing part of my yearly AT. I saw the guy doing touch and goes (I was working on a P-3 engine facing the runway on a B4 stand) and the next thing I saw was a cloud of dust at the end of the north/ south runway (the E2 was heading south). I ran to the edge of the taxiway and by that time every ES person on the base was on scene. Here's the the blurb from the Navy Times for June 2000.

"On 9 May 2000, an E-2C Hawkeye of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 116, operating at its home base of NAS Point Mugu, Calif., was damaged when it struck the ground after a bird strike."
 
In today's (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot, the Navy has declared the three missing
pilots dead. They were Lt. Cameron N Hall, 30, of Natchitoches, LA; Lt. Ryan
K. Betton, 31, of Collinsville, VA and Lt(jg) Jerry R. Smith, 26, of Greensville,
MA. Betton and Hall were instructors with Carrier Airborne Early Warning
Squadron 120, Smith was a student.

Charles
 
These men that protect us and this country are engaged in a very dangerous business. It's much appreciated by those they protect and it is NEVER taken for granted.
 

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