The Navy and Marine Corps aviation units are taking a one-day “safety pause” on Monday to review risk-management practices and train “on threat and error-management processes” in the wake of back-to-back fatal flight mishaps in the past two weeks, officials said.
The “safety stand-down” will affect all non-deployed naval aviation community units, according to officials with Commander, Naval Air Forces.
“In order to maintain the readiness of our force, we must ensure the safety of our people remains one of our top priorities,” Navy officials said in a statement.
Navy Lt. Richard Bullock was killed June 3, 2022, when his F/A 18-E Super Hornet jet fighter crashed in a remote, unpopulated area near Trona, California.