The U.S. Navy has identified two pilots who went missing and have since been declared dead after their EA-18G Growler crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington State last week.
The pilots were identified on Oct. 21 as Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, and Lt. Serena N. Wileman, 31, both from California.
The Navy said Evans and Wileman’s craft went down during a routine training flight on Oct. 15. Search efforts had played out for several days before the service concluded that both pilots were killed in the crash.
Evans studied at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and joined the Navy through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)….