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2 killed in Navy plane crash off coast of AlabamaFrom Paul Courson PENSACOLA, Florida (CNN) -- Two Navy instructor pilots died Friday when the training plane they were flying crashed in Alabama near the Gulf of Mexico. The T-34C propeller plane, assigned to the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, crashed in a swamp and waterway area at the southern tip of Alabama, said Pensacola NAS spokeswoman Barbara Levick. The plane and two crew members were found in Alabama's Intracoastal Waterway, about three miles west of Fort Morgan, Alabama. The area is about 40 miles west of Pensacola, Levick said. She said the two were from the base's Training Airwing Six. They were the only two aboard the plane, which has a front-seat, back-seat configuration. The T-34 "turbo mentor" uses an airframe dating back to the 1950s. This particular plane was upgraded with a higher-powered engine some time later, but air station spokesman Ron Westlake did not have its maintenance history available. The model has had a history of trouble, including engine failures from repeated heating-and-cooling cycles, and propeller fractures. |
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