Training crash 9 August 2001

Robert Wayne Sides, age 39, from Virginia, Virginia Beach, City of county.

Military history: Fighter Squadron 2, VF-2

Date of death: Thursday, August 9, 2001
Death details: Lost at Sea, Bay of Bengal. Flying a fighter jet from the deck of the USS Constellation when it failed to return from a night-time training mission.

Source: Military Dead Database from the Library of Virginia, Richmond,, Virginia Pilot

Richard Stephen Pugh, age 30, from Virginia, Virginia Beach, City of county.

Military history: Fighter Squadron 2, VF-2

Date of death: Thursday, August 9, 2001
Death details: Lost at Sea, Bay of Bengal. Flying a fighter jet from the deck of the USS Constellation when it failed to return from a night-time training mission.

Source: Military Dead Database from the Library of Virginia, Richmond,, Virginia Pilot, US Naval Academy