Aircraft
U.S. Navy Pauses T-45 Operations Over Oxygen System Issue
The three-day T-45C grounding comes as the Navy copes with increasing rates of physiological episodes in Hornets, Super Hornets and Growlers.
A T-45C Goshawk makes an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in February. (Photo: U.S. Navy)
A T-45C Goshawk makes an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in February. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The U.S. Navy has temporarily paused operations of the T-45C Goshawk training jet out of concern for potential “physiological episodes” resulting from oxygen-system contamination. The temporary grounding comes as the Navy copes with steadily increasing rates of such episodes experienced by pilots of F/A-18A-D Hornets, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers as well as T-45 pilots.