The article Military Aircraft Crashes Outside Of Small IE Airport appeared first on Banning-Beaumont Patch. TRONA, CA — A military aircraft crashed Tuesday morning just outside the Trona town limits in a remote stretch of desert, according to the Trona Airport manager. No injuries were reported.

A trained cadaver dog named Ensey played a vital role in the search for the plane that crashed over Lake Ponchartrain. “I’m convinced if we hadn’t had Ensey, we wouldn’t have found the wreckage."

One of the planes was accidentally shot down by the cruiser USS Gettysburg, which also fired on another Super Hornet.

A flight instructor and a student who were on board a small plane that departed Million Air in Gulfport and crashed into Lake Pontchartrain on Monday, November 24, have now been identified.Michael Carastro,

The U.S. Navy has confirmed the identity of Lt. David Michael Jahn with permission from his family. The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday afternoon suspended a search for Jahn and the flight instructor aboard the plane, Taylor Dickey, who was also 30 years old.

The plane was part of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, the military’s official aerial demonstration team, the social media post said.

The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive information to China if Beijing were to get to them first.

Pentagon data shows that deadly and costly military aircraft mishaps skyrocketed 55 percent over the past four years, alarming lawmakers, defense analysts, and aviation safety experts. The number of Class A mishaps—the deadliest and costliest category ...

Taylor Dickey, 30, and her student, Navy Lt. David Michael Jahn, 30, took off from Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport in a Cessna Skyhawk on the ill-fated flight Monday.