Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Kara Spears Hultgreen (October 5, 1965–October 25, 1994), was a lieutenant and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when she crashed her F-14 Tomcat into the sea on final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). A formal investigation found that the cause of the crash was pilot error.During her Naval Aviation career, Hultgreen had accumulated four "downs," or major errors in flight training. Normally, in accordance with Naval Air Training Command standards, having more than two "downs" in Navy undergraduate flight training would be enough to permanently prevent someone from becoming a Naval Aviator. However, two of her downs were incurred in fleet replacement training, after she had graduated from advanced naval flight training under the cognizance of the Naval Air Training Command and received her wings. As such, because the fleet replacement squadrons fall under the cognizance of the Atlantic or Pacific fleets, the latter two downs did not technically meet the "three and done" standard common in the training command.. }
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- Kara_Hultgreen abstract "Kara Spears Hultgreen (October 5, 1965–October 25, 1994), was a lieutenant and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She died just months after she was certified for combat, when she crashed her F-14 Tomcat into the sea on final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). A formal investigation found that the cause of the crash was pilot error.During her Naval Aviation career, Hultgreen had accumulated four "downs," or major errors in flight training. Normally, in accordance with Naval Air Training Command standards, having more than two "downs" in Navy undergraduate flight training would be enough to permanently prevent someone from becoming a Naval Aviator. However, two of her downs were incurred in fleet replacement training, after she had graduated from advanced naval flight training under the cognizance of the Naval Air Training Command and received her wings. As such, because the fleet replacement squadrons fall under the cognizance of the Atlantic or Pacific fleets, the latter two downs did not technically meet the "three and done" standard common in the training command.".