Both pilots onboard reportedly ejected.
An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Tophatters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 participates in an air power demonstration over the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). US Navy
Two pilots are missing after an F/A-18F Super Hornet went down off the coast of Key West, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon.
A spokesman with Naval Air Forces Atlantic, Cmdr. Dave Hecht, told Military.com that search-and-rescue efforts are ongoing after the aircraft, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 213, out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, suffered a mishap approximately a mile off the runway.
Elements of the squadron, nicknamed the Blacklions, had been completing a detachment to Naval Air Station Key West.
The crash happened around 4:30 p.m., Hecht said. Both pilots onboard the Super Hornet ejected, he said.
It’s not clear what Navy and civilian assets are participating in the rescue effort or what caused the crash.
