The point is that runway is much longer than Chicago Midway and southwest lands that same plane there every 5 minutes so day long… in all kinds of weather. Navy pilots are supposed to be the pinnacle. Nobody crashes Navy patrol planes.
This crew was picked for PR reasons and likely passed into duty for three same reasons.
“Nobody crashes Navy patrol planes.”
This might be the first crash of the P-8A, but there have been numerous crashes of its predecessor, the P-3 series (A, B, and c).
https://aviation-safety.net/database/types/Lockheed-P-3-Orion/losses
“The point is that runway is much longer than Chicago Midway”
Not sure about Chicago Midway, but KBay’s runway is 7000 ft