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A U.S. Navy aircraft crashed in Washington state on Tuesday, with search efforts ongoing for its two crew members. An EA-18G Growler, an electronic warfare aircraft, crashed east of Mount Rainier ...

UPDATE: Search crews located the wreckage of the missing Navy aircrafton the afternoon of Oct. 16 near Mount Rainier.Aerial search crews found the crash site of theEA-18G Growleraround 12:30 p.m ...

A Boeing EA-18G Growler (not the one that crashed) lands on the deck of the USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 25, 2017. AFP via Getty Images In October, another ...

The US Navy is searching for two crew members after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington during a training flight on Tuesday. A US Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft — assigned to ...

The Growler was on a routine training flight when it crashed Tuesday afternoon, the Navy previously told USA TODAY. The aircraft, a variant of the F/A-18 Super Hornet, was part of Electronic ...

According to the Navy, the EA-18G Growler belongs to the F/A-18 aircraft family but combines the Super Hornet’s capabilities with a “sophisticated electronic warfare suite.” The Growler ...

Several U.S. Navy aircraft were diverted to other airfields in Japan on Wednesday after an E/A-18G Growler made a precautionary arrested landing that temporarily closed the runway at Marine Corps ...

NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. — The U.S. Navy has identified the two aviators who died when their EA-18G Growler aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier last week. Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P.