US Navy identifies crew killed in training plane crash in southern Alabama

10/26/2020 USA


In a news release Sunday, the Navy identified the victims as 30-year-old Navy Lieutenant Ryan Ross of Wiscombe, Michigan, and Engine Morgan Garrett, a 24-year-old U.S. Coast Guard from Weddington, North Carolina.

Ross was an instructor pilot, the Navy said in a statement, while Garrett was identified as a student pilot.

“Their spirit, friendship and loyalty to their country cannot be forgotten,” the Navy said in a statement.

The U.S. Navy identified the aircrew of the two men killed in Friday's crash in Foley, Alabama, as U.S. Coast Guard Engineer Morgan Garrett (left) and U.S. Navy Lt. Ryan Ross.

Russ and Garrett took off Friday from the Naval Air Station Whitefield in Milton, Florida, on a Navy T-6B Texan II trainer aircraft for a regular training flight, the Navy said.

The plane crashed about 5 miles south-east of Mobile and about 45 miles off NAS Whiting Field in the Foley residential area of ​​Alabama at around 5 p.m.

No civilians were injured in the crash, the Navy said Sunday. The incident is being investigated by the Navy and local authorities.

The 245 T-6B is based on two naval aviation training centers, Naval Air Station Whitefield, located 24 miles east of Corpus Christi, Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, and Texas. Six additional T-6B aircraft have been housed at the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Station Patentsant River in Maryland.

On Saturday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General. Mark Mille extends his condolences to the families of Ross and Garrett, Said in a tweet“Today, we mourn the loss of our two fallen shipmates who died in yesterday’s T-6B training crash in Foley, AL. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families and our USAV teammates.”

CNN’s Ryan Brown, Leah Asmelesh and Rebekah Rise contributed to the report.

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