The U.S. Navy has completed an investigative report into the fatal crash of a T-6B in 2020. The investigators concluded that the crash was “not due to misconduct or negligence.”
The single-engine turboprop training aircraft impact the ground upside, down killing Navy instructor Lt. Rhiannon Ross and student Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett in Alabama on Oct. 23, 2020.
Their plane went into a stall at 3,800ft after entering a high-banked left turn. It hit the ground 22 seconds later, both of them did not initiate ejection.
The report recommends that the Navy “review, update and standardize” its procedures on ejection from the T-6B.
However, the commanding officer of VT-2 commented in the report that the conclusion into the circumstances leading to the crash cannot be reached. One of the reasons is the lack of a cockpit voice recorder. Data from the flight recorder revealed that both women did not take any actions to recover from the stall.
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