NEWS: Four Navy Aviators Missing: Updated

A breaking report still developing four Navy aviators are missing after failing to return to their carrier USS John C. Stennis. After what is being called a routine training mission. So far few details are being made available to the public other than the fact that an investigation is under way.

Please scroll through the thread for the updates, and to see the timeline as it all evolved.




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At this time there is no further information available other than that in the above source report.

It seems that the aircraft may have crashed but the fate of the crew is still unknown as well as the cause.. Listed as missing.

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From another news source:



I hope they can find these guys alive, As of now all that is being said is that an investigation is underway.


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I hope these guys are ok. it seems a bit strange to me that an aircraft can just disappear no "mayday". no "we are being engaged" and they we'nt in a combat area.

Anyone seen any UFOs around that part of the world?

Latest report from the AP.. though not much has changed they are now saying that the plane crashed on an uninhabited island.

How hard can it be to find the aviators? Cant they find the place where the plane went off the radar screen then make a 50 mile radius and search the ocean with Navy jets. If they crashed in an uninhabited island well use thermal sights if you see heat its obviously them cuz no one else lives there.

First of all there's no reason to believe that the Stennis really is there - reminder : there are 10 carrier groups deployed (unprecendented, sofar maximum of 5) and their position REALLY is above top secret.


www.worldsfinestnavy.com...

Search Continues for 4 Missing Navy Aviators

There is more that we do not know than we do at this point.

The story is strange to say the least. The current reports say that the plane crashed on an uninhabited island. Kita Io Jima is a two-square-mile volcanic island, about 45 miles north of Iwo Jima.

The last known radio contact with the plane and crew was said to have been at at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday.

Since that time the island has been searched by crews from both the USS John C. Stennis and the USS Kitty Hawk. And yet as of this time there is no word on the fate of the crew or that any debris from the aircraft has been found.

There seems to be a strange scilence from the US Navy on this matter. Though I am sure they have their reasons.

There has been a great deal of time passed since these men and aircraft were reported missing, and given the statments made that they knew the location where the plane went down it seems highly unusual that they have been unable to find anything.

An expected but still sad update..



Thoughts with the victims, families and all who knew them before and since this tragic and unexplained event.

Though they seem to have met their end in a training mission they are still American Heros. And worthy of our thanks and praise.

Sacrifice durring war or peace does not always go un-noticed.. at least on my part.

Heros one and all.

Anyone who makes the choice to join the defence force are Heros. RIP Lt. Patrick Sean Myrick, 31; Lt. James Joseph Pupplo, 34; Lt. Cmdr. Scott Allen Zellem, 35; and Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class Joshua Brent Showalter, 24.