Former Navy football player Caleb King was one of two aviators killed in a fighter jet crash off Key West, Florida.
King, a 2012 Naval Academy graduate, was aboard an F/A-18F Super Hornet that crashed on approach to Naval Air Station Key West on Wednesday, friends and Navy sources told The Capital. Family members have confirmed his death on social media.
Navy officials said the aircraft was on a routine training mission when the mishap occurred, but would not go into further details because a preliminary investigation was still in its early stages.
One witness who lives along the aircraft’s approach path told Military.