A two seat T-2 Buckeye jet trainer crashed Sunday on the flight deck of the carrier Lexington as it was cruising 17 miles south of Pensacola, Florida. The jet was assigned to Training Squadron 19 at the Meridian, Mississippi Naval Air Station. Two were killed and others injured. Several short-lived fires broke out on the World War II-class carrier, the only one used exclusively for flight training. Five aircraft on the flight deck suffered major damage. Helicopters took the injured to hospitals on the mainland.
A two seat T-2 Buckeye jet trainer crashed Sunday on the flight deck of the carrier Lexington as it was cruising 17 miles south of Pensacola, Florida. The jet was assigned to Training Squadron 19 at the Meridian, Mississippi Naval Air Station. Five were killed and others injured. Several short-lived fires broke out on the World War II-class carrier, the only one used exclusively for flight training. Two aircraft on the flight deck suffered major damage. Helicopters took the injured to hospitals on the mainland.