The two Navy aviators who were killed when their aircraft crashed in steep rugged terrain near Mt. Rainer are identified as California natives.

The missing crew members are presumed dead after rescue teams spent five days searching for them, even after the Navy found the EA-18G Growler.

The U.S. Navy has identified two female pilots, who were killed when their EA-18G Growler crashed last week during a training mission east of Mount Rainier in Washington state.

On Monday, two Navy aviators who died after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier were identified by the Navy.

Two Naval aviators who were killed when their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington State last week had just returned from a Middle East deployment where they took part in strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

The Navy identified on Monday the two crew members who died last week in a jet fighter crash near Mount Rainier as two 31-year-old female aviators from California. Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, a Naval Flight Officer,

The U.S. Navy said Sunday that two pilots who went missing after a fighter jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington State last week have died.

Two crew members who were missing following the crash of a fighter jet in Washington state have been declared dead, the Navy said.