Florida based Navy plane crash in Georgia claims lives of crew

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Levittown Marine killed in training flight
By Robert Moran

Inquirer Staff Writer

First Lt. Shawn Nice, 26, a Levittown native, was a Marine officer training in Pensacola, Fla., to be a naval flight officer.
He had a degree in electrical engineering.

He and his wife, Kimberly, were expecting their first child.

Nice was on a routine training flight on a T-39N Sabreliner out of Pensacola when it crashed in dense forest in northern Georgia on Monday.

He was one of four killed in the crash. The twin-engine jet nearly struck a house when it went down, according to authorities, but no one on the ground was hurt.
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Levittown Marine killed in training flight



At Least 3 Dead in Navy Crash in Georgia
April 13, 2010
Associated Press

MORGANTON, Ga. -- A Florida-based Navy plane just missed a house and crashed in dense woods in north Georgia on Monday, killing three crew members, and authorities were looking for a fourth person believed to be aboard, officials said.

Naval Air Station Pensacola spokesman Harry White said authorities have not confirmed whether the pilot was among those killed when a T-39N training plane went down at 4:26 p.m. No one on the ground was injured, he said.

The plane was part of Training Air Wing 6, which conducts routine cross-country missions through Fannin County, where it crashed, about two hours north of Atlanta, on the edge of the North Carolina and Tennessee borders, White said. Searchers found three bodies. The twin-jet plane can carry two pilots and seven passengers, according to a Navy Web site.
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At Least 3 Dead in Navy Crash in Georgia