US navy identifies two killed in fighter-jet crash as female pilots from California

Lt Cdr Lyndsay P Evans and Lt Serena N Wileman, both 31, died when their Growler jet crashed east of Mount Rainier

The US navy identified on Monday the two crew members who died last week in a fighter-jet crash near Mount Rainier as two 31-year-old female aviators from California.

Lt Cdr Lyndsay P Evans, a naval flight officer, and Lt Serena N Wileman, a naval aviator, died when their EA-18G Growler jet from the Electronic Attack Squadron, known as “Zappers”, crashed east of Mount Rainier last Tuesday during a training flight, according to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.