Courtesy of NBCThree crew members were killed Monday when a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed in Washington State.
Naval air station Whidbey Island confirmed the crash of the twin-engine plane in eastern Washington.
The navy says the aircraft was an EA-6B prowler and that all three people in it were killed.
The victims' identities were being withheld until their families could be notified.
The prowler was "engaged in a low-level navigation training mission.
Witnesses told NBC station KHQ of Spokane that they saw a large black plume of smoke.
The owner of the field where the plane crashed said when he arrived at the scene there were no signs of parachute ejection.
