“The U.S. Navy has declared two missing crew members of the EA-186 Growler crash, deceased,” the announcement reads. “Electronic Attack Wing Pacific has shifted from search and rescue efforts to recovery operations.”

A U.S. Navy jet crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington state and a search was underway for the plane's two crew members, the Navy said.

On Monday, two Navy aviators who died after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier were identified by the Navy.

They were among only a few women to fly combat missions over land, the Navy's Carrier Strike Group 2 said on Monday.

The missing crew members are presumed dead after rescue teams spent five days searching for them, even after the Navy found the EA-18G Growler.

The Navy identified on Monday the two crew members who died last week in a jet fighter crash near Mount Rainier as two 31-year-old female aviators from California. Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay P. Evans, a Naval Flight Officer,

Two Naval aviators from California who died in Washington state when their fighter jet crashed during a training mission last week have been identified.