
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, August 18, 1995                   TAG: 9508180030
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: MERIDIAN, MISS.                                 LENGTH: Short

NAVY BLAMES IMPATIENCE FOR JET CRASH

A Navy flight instructor's impatience is being blamed for a fatal crash last year in Virginia involving a jet from Meridian Naval Air Station, according to a television report.

Lt. Mark Sharp was killed in July 1994 when the T-2 Buckeye that he and his student pilot were flying crashed shortly after taking off from the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, according to a report broadcast Wednesday by WTOK-TV in Meridian.

In the crash report obtained by the television station, Navy investigators said Sharp skipped several mandatory preflight and checklist procedures.

Investigators said a combination of being away from Meridian and a hurry to get airborne to avoid severe weather caused the crash of the aircraft from Training Squadron 19.

The student pilot of the jet, Carl Hogsett, survived the crash.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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