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Navy/USMC

Navy Grounds T-45C Trainers To Address Safety Concerns

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, April 6th, 2017

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Navy Grounds T-45C Trainers To Address Safety Concerns

The U.S. Navy has grounded its fleet of T-45C Goshawk trainer jets for several days to address safety concerns raised by instructor pilots, the service announced late April 5.The Navy said that recent physiological episodes in T-45C cockpits were caused by contamination of the aircraft's onboard oxygen generation system (OBOGS), or pilot breathing gas. The grounding, or “operational pause,” will allow naval aviation leaders to meet with the pilots to explain efforts to find a solution to the problem, the Navy…

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