Texas naval trainer plane crashes, pilot safely ejected
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A pilot ejected from a T-45 Goshawk jet trainer shortly before it crashed near Naval Air Station Kingsville in southern Texas on Tuesday.
The chief of naval air training said the pilot was transferred to a local hospital for evaluation, but NAS Kingsville said no injuries were reported.
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The aircraft landed in an empty field just north of the airfield and no civilians were injured. It happened during a « routine training flight », the chief of naval aviation training said.
FILE – In this Dec. 10, 2016 file photo, pilots perform pre-flight procedures in T-45C Goshawks from Training Air Wing One on the flight deck of the USS George Washington aircraft carrier docked in Norfolk, North America. Virginia.
(Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Mai/US Navy via AP, file)
Deputies from the Kingsville Sheriff’s Office and emergency medical personnel responded to the scene.
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The crash comes after another T-45 Goshawk jet trainer crashed into a neighborhood last September in Lake Worth, Texas. Both pilots in this incident ejected safely.
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