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Navy/USMC

Mechanical Failure Behind Crash Of Navy’s BAMS Demonstrator

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

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PATUXENT RIVER, Md.--A mechanical airframe failure was responsible for the June crash in Maryland of a Navy unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrator for the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program, the service's program manager said yesterday. Capt. Jim Hoke did not provide additional details of the mechanical failure during a briefing with reporters at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The BAMS-Demonstrator, or BAMS-D, crashed June 11 in an unpopulated and swampy area near Bloodsworth Island in Dorchester County, Md. No one was…

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