{"id":1308492,"date":"2026-05-28T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/t-45c-goshawk-crash-meridian-mississippi-may-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:22:27","slug":"t-45c-goshawk-crash-meridian-mississippi-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/t-45c-goshawk-crash-meridian-mississippi-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Pilots Eject as Navy T-45 Goshawk Crashes in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Two Martin-Baker ejection seats fired into a Mississippi sky on the afternoon of 26 May 2026. The T-45C Goshawk they had just left came down on private farmland in Noxubee County, Mississippi, near Naval Air Station Meridian. Both crew members ejected safely and were taken to a local medical centre for evaluation \u2014 and counted as the Goshawk&#8217;s latest reminder of its age.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second US military jet trainer lost in a single month. And it lands in the middle of a US Navy programme \u2014 the Undergraduate Jet Training System replacement \u2014 that is already trying to decide what flies after the Goshawk before the Goshawk grounds itself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:16px 20px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:16px\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 26 May 2026<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Near NAS Meridian, Mississippi<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> McDonnell Douglas T-45C Goshawk, US Navy<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Crew:<\/strong> Two aviators of Training Air Wing One \u2014 both ejected safely<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Fleet:<\/strong> ~190 T-45C aircraft, service since 1991<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A trainer at the limits<\/h2>\n<p>The T-45C is the carrier-capable derivative of the BAE Hawk, built by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) under a Cold War licence. It has been the only jet teaching the US Navy&#8217;s brand-new fast-jet aviators since the late 1990s. Every Hornet, Super Hornet, Growler and now F-35C pilot has flown the Goshawk first \u2014 including the carrier-qualification phase that puts a student on a moving deck for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1460785719  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/t-45c-goshawk-vt-9-carrier-approach.jpg\" alt=\"T-45C Goshawk of VT-9 approaching a carrier\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A T-45C of training squadron VT-9 on final approach to a carrier in 2014. Every US naval jet aviator earns wings in this airframe. Photo: US Navy \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The aircraft is aging out. Originally fielded with a service-life ceiling of 14,400 hours, the fleet is now hitting that wall. The Navy briefly grounded the whole T-45 force in 2017 after pilots reported &#8220;physiological events&#8221; \u2014 hypoxia-like symptoms \u2014 traced to the oxygen-concentration system. That fleet-wide stand-down is still inside the Goshawk&#8217;s institutional memory.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What we know about the May 26 crash<\/h2>\n<p>The Navy has not yet released a flight number or named the crew. What it has said is that both crew members ejected safely and that the jet came down on private farmland in Noxubee County, with no reports of civilian casualties. Local emergency services and military first responders secured the site, and the two aviators were taken to a local medical centre for evaluation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Two personnel assigned to TW-1 aboard the aircraft ejected safely and are currently being evaluated at a local medical center.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) Public Affairs<\/strong> &mdash; Statement, 26 May 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A bad month for trainers, and a replacement contest<\/h2>\n<p>The Goshawk went down just two weeks after a US Air Force T-38C Talon from Columbus AFB crashed in Alabama on 12 May \u2014 its crew also ejected safely \u2014 prompting an operational pause for the Talon fleet. And the Navy&#8217;s tally of Class A mishaps for fiscal 2026 has, by late May, already matched the whole of fiscal 2025. The Navy&#8217;s formal T-45 replacement competition \u2014 the Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) \u2014 went into source selection in April 2026, with Boeing&#8217;s T-7A Red Hawk, the Lockheed Martin \/ KAI T-50, and Textron Aviation&#8217;s M-346N variant all in play.<\/p>\n<p>None of them, importantly, will be carrier-capable. The Navy quietly decided the next-generation jet trainer will land like an Air Force trainer \u2014 on a runway \u2014 and that carrier qualification will move to live Hornet or Super Hornet flights. The Goshawk, when it finally retires, will close out a 35-year monopoly on the cat-and-trap rite of passage. And the unanswered question is whether the replacement enters service before another T-45 incident forces the issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: The Aviationist, US Navy, Chief of Naval Air Training.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Martin-Baker ejection seats fired into a Mississippi sky on the afternoon of 26 May 2026. The T-45C Goshawk they had just left came down on private farmland in Noxubee County, Mississippi, near Naval Air Station Meridian. 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