Lemoore pilots' poor training blamed in 2011 crash

Poor training contributed to the deaths last year of two pilots at Lemoore Naval Air Station after a tricky air maneuver went wrong, a Navy report said.Lt. Matthew Ira Lowe, 33, and Lt. Nathan Williams, 28, were killed April 6 when their two-seater F/A-18F Super Hornet jet crashed outside the base.The investigation revealed that the pilots were doing a maneuver at too steep an angle to maintain control. In previous training flights, they failed to execute the maneuver properly

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