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NASHVILLE, Term. - A Navy F-14
fighter jet heavy with fuel crashed in a
huge fireball into a neighborhood Monday,
demolishing three houses and killing
five people. The pilot had been blamed
for a previous accident.
Three of the dead were in a house
that took a direct hit from the Tomcat,
as the F-14 is known. The others killed
were the plane's two-member crew.
The Navy identified the pilot as Lt.
Cmdr. John Stacy Bates, 33, originally
of Chattanooga. The radar interceptor
officer was identified as Lt. Graham
Alden Higgins, 28, from Dover-Foxcroft,
Maine.
Neither ejected before the crash.
In the earlier crash, off the aircraft
carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Bates
lost control of his F-14 and crashed into
the Pacific Ocean during maneuvers
with another fighter. He and the radar
intercept officer ejected.
Cmdr. Gregg Hartung, a Navy
spokesman, said Monday night that pilot
error was the cause of the April 1995
crash.
Bates went before a Field Naval
Aviator Evaluation Board and was
recommended frilly qualified for return
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Hartung said.
Bates' fighter squadron, VF 213, has
had four accidents in the last 16 months,
including the October 1994 fatal crash
involving Lt. Kara Hultgreen, one of the
first women to qualify for a Navy combat
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The F-14 had taken off"Monday from
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The fireball could be seen for miles
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neighborhood of brick homes where the
crash occurred under overcast skies.
"One guy was just sitting in his couch.
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street; another part of the plane rested 1
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my car," said Don The crash site is 2 1/2 miles south of
g near the airport. Nashville's airport, which is next to a
1, who lives a half- Tennessee Air National Guard
>lane crashed, said: installation.
ping directly down The F-14 is a supersonic, twin-engine
fighter designed to attack enemy aircraft
e crash was not at night and in any weather. Its crew
Ihe Pentagon sent consists of a pilot and a radar intercept
rs. officer. It typically carries missiles, rockets
5, and his wife, Ada and bombs, but the Navy said the plane
lied in their home, that went down on Monday was not
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lied. - The jet, built by Grumman, was
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ext-door neighbors 11 in 1993, five in 1994 and seven in
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