Sailor killed aboard USS George H.W. Bush

Back here at home, there is sad news tonight involving the Navy and a locally based aircraft carrier. A

sailor

dies and what is called a flight deck mishap. The accident occurred yesterday aboard the USS George HW Bush 13. News Now. The military reporter joins us now. Mike Gooding with the details, well Dave Regina, obviously this is not the kind of news anyone in a military community like ours wants to hear now that Bush pulled out of Hampton Roads last week ahead of Hurricane Florence Monday night. late in the Atlantic. In the middle of routine aircraft carrier qualification exercises on the flight deck, the

sailor

was

killed

according to Naval Air Force Atlantic, no one else was injured.

At this time it is unknown exactly what happened. What you are seeing here is an archival tape of flight deck operations aboard the

bush

earlier this year that we were able to shoot Commander David hacked from the air lat tells 13 News now the cause of the mishap remains under investigation Diablos says death was not weather related Navy has not released sailors' names Defense Department policy prevents release of such details until 24 hours after sailors' families have been notified Now, sadly, this is not the first VA accident to claim the lives of local staff in March. You may remember a pilot and naval flight officer. of Oceana Squadron VFA 213 died when their F-18 F Super Hornet crashed in the waters near Key West, Florida, and Military Times reports that a total of 133 service members died in military aviation mishaps between the years 2013 and 2017.

Mike Gooding 13 News Now