The U.S. Navy confirmed it will conduct a one-day “safety pause,” grounding all nonessential flights, following at least three Navy and Marine Corps aircraft crashes in the past two weeks, two of which resulted in fatalities.
“As a result of recent crashes involving U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, Commander, Naval Air Forces has directed all non-deployed Navy aviation units to conduct a safety pause on June 13 in order to review risk-management practices and conduct training on threat and error-management processes,” the Naval Air Forces said on June 11, adding that the pauses will happen as soon as possible.
