EA-18G Growler down near MT Rainier WA

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Just popping in to provide a few updates. 
Navy crew still missing after spy planes spot Growler crash (taskandpurpose.com)

An Emergency Operations Center has been established on NAS Whidbey Island to coordinate response efforts, and the U.S. Navy is making preparations to deploy personnel to secure aerial search crews located the wreckage of the EA-18G Growler that crashed on Oct. 15. The crash site rests on a mountainside east of Mount Rainier.
 
The search includes EP-3E Aries II aircraft from Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) and P-8A Poseidon from Patrol Squadron 46 (VP-46). The EP-3E is a signal intelligence platform, tasked to eavesdrop on enemy communications and other electronic spying, while the airliner-sized P-8A conducts anti-submarine missions. Teams from NAS Whidbey Island Search and Rescue and Army helicopters from 4-6 Air Cavalry Squadron from Joint Base Lewis-McChord were also searching.
 
The Navy released no details on how the plane went missing during a “routine training missing” just after 3 p.m. Tuesday. The fighter jet crashed, the Navy said, “east of Mount Rainier,” which sits about halfway between Seattle and Yakima.

and this story:
Special Forces brought in to reach Navy jet crash on Mount Rainier (taskandpurpose.com)

Army Green Berets with specialized mountaineering training were attempting to reach a site on Mount Rainier in Washington where the wreckage of a Navy EA-18G Growler was spotted. The plane went down two days ago on a training flight, the Navy said, and the jet’s 2-man crew remained unaccounted for after rescuers spotted the crash site early Thursday amid bad weather and mountainous terrain.
 
The Whidbey Island-based EA-18G crashed on Oct. 15 during a flight the Navy called a “routine training mission.” Search and rescue flights — which included a Navy spy plane and a submarine hunter — spotted the wreckage in terrain at approximately 6,000 feet in what the Navy said is “a remote, steep and heavily wooded area east of Mount Rainier.”
 
To reach the site, officials have called in soldiers from 1st Special Forces Group at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle. Those soldiers, the Navy said, have expertise in “high-angle rescue, medical, and technical communication skills necessary to navigate the difficult terrain associated with the Cascade Mountain Range that is inaccessible by other means.”
 
In a statement, Navy officials did not say whether they believed the crew was still alive or at the crash site.

I'll update this thread as more is known.