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Apartment complex where F/A-18D crashed four years ago to be demolished

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Residents of Mayfair Mews apartment complex in Virginia Beach found out this month that they will have to evacuate by end of July. The place was where a VFA-106 F/A-18D crashed four years ago.

Flickr - Official U.S. Navy Imagery - Firefighting foam covers the scene of a crash of an F-A-18D Hornet. (2)
By Official Navy Page from United States of America MC3 Antonio P. Turretto Ramos/U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

No one was killed when the Hornet, which took off from NAS Oceana, suffered a rare double engine failure.

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