{"id":37647,"date":"2017-10-02T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/02\/officials-navy-jet-crashes-in-tennessee-national-forest\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:29:07","slug":"officials-navy-jet-crashes-in-tennessee-national-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/10\/02\/officials-navy-jet-crashes-in-tennessee-national-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy investigating link between Tennessee crash site and missing T-45"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A T-45 Goshawk jet from Training Air Wing ONE based out of Naval Air Station in Meridian, Mississippi has crashed in southeastern Tennessee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Navy officials haven\u2019t yet confirmed whether the reported T-45 Goshawk training aircraft that crashed Sunday in eastern Tennessee\u2019s Cherokee National Forest is in fact the Navy T-45 jet that had been reported missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crash is the latest episode in a problematic history for the T-45, an aircraft that has been plagued with oxygen system failures, resulting in a Navy-wide grounding of the training jets in April. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are trying to determine if the jet that crashed is, in fact, a T-45 aircraft from Training Wing One that was on a training flight from Knoxville to Meridian, Miss., yesterday that is currently unaccounted for,\u201d said Lt. Elizabeth Feaster, spokesperson for the Chief of Naval Air Training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA team of investigators is currently on their way to the crash site to determine if this aircraft is ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t