Navy Jet Crash Update: Pilot Confirmed Dead By Navy

The Navy jet crash which occurred on Saturday afternoon during a training exercise in Western Nevada, resulted in the death of the pilot. The F/A-18C Hornet jet was confirmed by the Navy to have been a “total loss.”

The Inquisitr reported on the crash yesterday:

A Navy F/A-18C Hornet has crashed in a remote mountainous area in northern Nevada. After more than four hours teams have not yet reached the crash scene, so the status of the pilot is unknow

The Hornet is a single-seat jet and was on a training flight out of the Fallon Naval Air Station, where it was based. It’s last known position was around 70 miles east of the base, and it was last heard from at 3.00 p.m. Pacific time.

It took many hours for rescue teams to reach the site where the Navy jet went down. This was due not only to local snow storms, but also to the remote location and the mountainous terrain. The U.S. Marine jet was on loan to the Naval Strike and Air Welfare Center, when it crashed about 70 miles east of Naval Air Station Fallon.

The identity of the pilot who died is being withheld for the next 24 hours until his next- of-kin can be notified. It isn’t clear at this time what caused the Navy jet crash but the Navy has confirmed that no one else was inured as a result of the crash.

The Navy has suffered a number of fatal air crashes in recent years, including one also over the Nevada desert. In 2008, two Navy pilots collided, killing the pilot of another F/A-18C.