Four S-3B Viking Naval Aviators Missing
Navy Newsstand
Story Number:NNS040811-05
Release Date: 8/11/2004 11:57:00 AM
From U.S. 7th Fleet Public Affairs
USS JOHN C. STENNIS, At Sea (NNS) -- An S-3B Viking aircraft operating from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) was flying in the vicinity of Iwo Jima island chain when communications were lost at approximately 7:42 p.m. (local time), Aug. 10.
Four naval aviators aboard the aircraft were listed as missing after failing to return to the carrier.
The aircraft, assigned to Sea Control Squadron (VS) 35, based at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, was conducting a routine training mission in the western Pacific Ocean as part of the Joint Air-Sea Exercise (JASEX) '04 with the Stennis and USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) carrier strike groups.
Search-and-rescue and support efforts are currently under way by both Stennis and Kitty Hawk carrier strike groups.
An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway.
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