[MilCom] Re: NavNews for Friday, January 13, 2006

[Greg Brazil]

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>  NNS060112-14. Navy T-39 Aircrew Identified
> 
>  From Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs
> 
>  PENSACOLA, Fla (NNS) -- The Navy has released the names
>  of the four crewmembers killed in the Jan. 10, 2006 crash of a
>  T-39 Sabreliner training aircraft in Walker County, Georgia.
> 
>  The missing aircraft belonged to Training Squadron 86 and a
>  search was immediately initiated after it failed to return to Naval
>  Air Station Pensacola at the conclusion of a routine training flight.
>  The aircraft wreckage was located Wednesday evening. There
>  were no survivors.
> 
>  The aircraft had 4 personnel on board: a civilian contract pilot, a
>  Navy instructor, a Navy student and an Air Force student.
> 
>  The deceased include:
> 
>  - Lt. Jason S. Manse, USN, 30, Canton, Ohio
>  - Ensign Elizabeth Bonn, USN, 23, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
>  - 1st Lt. Jason W. Davis, USAF, 28, Vista, Calif.
>  - Commander Dave Roark, USN (Retired), Contractor, 68,
>  Pensacola, Fla.
> 
>  The aircraft crash site was discovered by a Georgia State Patrol
>  Helicopter assisting in the search operation. The crash site is in
>  the remote, heavily wooded and rugged terrain of the
>  Chattahoochie National Forest. The cause of the accident is
>  under investigation. A Navy mishap investigation team is on
>  location at the crash site.
> 
>  For more information on Training Squadron 86 visit their Web
>  site at www.cnatra.navy.mil/tw6/vt86/index.asp 
> <file://www.cnatra.navy.mil/tw6/vt86/index.asp>.
> 
>  For more information on Naval Education and Training
>  Command visit www.netc.navy.mil <file://www.netc.navy.mil>.
>