SELMA, Ala – The Navy has identified two of its pilots who were killed in a civilian plane crash last week in Alabama.
Captain Vincent Segars and Cmdr. Joshua Fuller flew to Pensacola, Florida, from Jasper, Alabama, on a civilian plane. The single-engine plane crashed near Selma on Wednesday afternoon, killing both of them. Only those on board.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident.
Segars is the commander of the Naval Aviation School Command at Pensacola Naval Air Station, and Fuller is the integration officer for the navy’s introductory flight evaluation command program, said Cmdr. James Stockman, public affairs officer for Naval Education and Training Command at NAS Pensacola.
That Pensacola News Journal The group reportedly came from South Carolina and was assigned to the Navy on September 6, 1990, through the NROTC Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He then attended the Staff and Air Command High School at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama and was first assigned as commander of the NAS Pensacola Naval Aviation School Command on April 29, 2009.
Fuller is a native of Florida. He was assigned to the Navy on June 23, 2000, and became part of the Navy Aviation School Command staff on November 15, 2019. Before moving to the Gulf Coast, he was assigned to several electronic attack squadrons on Whidbey Island, Washington.
