US Navy pilots break free as EA-18G Growler jet slams into San Diego Bay: video

aerotime.aero ^ | February 13, 2025 | By Ian Molyneaux

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sorry chums, but the cost of that airplane will be dedeucted from every paycheck.

[Red6]

The ejected.

So they knew.

Something went horribly wrong with that jet.

[BobL]

More results from DEI.

[missnry]

We have the magic word in the news - BOEING!
Any jet crash made by manufacturer Boeing MUST have BOEING emphasized. That must be a new rule in journalism.

[OldHarbor]

By Ian Molyneaux Edited By Emma Yates-Badley

The proper term is ejected. The pilots ejected . Break free ? 🙄

[drwoof]

Indeed. Just as the media now adds the phase “...under Trump.” to all bad news, e.g., reporting yesterday “Inflation rises under Trump!”

[V_TWIN]

There is a Navy depot level rework facility in San Diego that does maintenance on those jets.

I worked at the one in northeast Florida for over 30 years.

I’m not saying that’s what happened, but I will say the San Diego depot’s reputation for questionable maintenance practices was well known by my depot.

[ClearCase_guy]

The journalist is probably a Freddie Mercury fan — “I want to break free”.

[Mastador1]

Riiiight! It was brand new right off the assembly line, or maybe did it have, like almost all the Boeing incidents, involve a plane that has been in service for quite sometime, maybe years and this had much more to do with maintenance than the manufacturer?

[V_TWIN]

The writer is British.....they talk funny.

[Red6]

For the next 120 years. LOL

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Break free ? 🙄”

No kidding! This author Ian Molyneaux is a real moron. Send him back to J-school.

[Candor7]

Saw videos of the crash, my bet is that they had a flame out of both engines on their landing approach, tried to dive hard for a compression restart and failed. EJECT< EJECT < EJECT !

[libertylover]

Navy pilots managed to break free from a Boeing EA-18G Growler jet whilst the aircraft hurtled towards the San Diego Bay.

Uh, has the writer never heard of ejection seats?

[Bob434]

Boing Boing goes Boeing

[V_TWIN]

See post 11

[libertylover]

The crew survived so they’ll be able to say what went wrong, or at least what they think went wrong.

BTW, do both seat positions on these Navy planes have flight controls or just the one?

[Eli Kopter]

My impression of the writer is that he should have learned something in Night School to write this crap. “Broke free?” I thought maybe the pilots were strapped to the fuselage or something and managed to “break free”...written like a 3rd grade book report.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"break free" and "The writer is British.....they talk funny."

Yet, in Ian's second paragraph, he wrote:

"US Navy officials confirmed that the two pilots ejected from the EA-18G Growler before impact and were rescued promptly from the water after the incident."

My theory is that Ian just dropped that malarky because he has the receipts.