document: A jet trainer crashed Sunday on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Lexington in the Gulf of Mexico , killing five people , injuring at least two and damaging several aircraft , the Navy said . The crash of the two-seat T-2 Buckeye caused several fires on the World War II-era ship that sailors quickly brought under control , officials said . Cmdr. Dennis Hessler , spokesman for the chief of naval education and training at Pensacola , said he did not know whether the plane was taking off or landing at the time of the crash . It was unclear how many people were aboard the jet . The crash also did major damage to two aircraft on the flight deck and minor damage to another , a Pentagon spokesman said . The Lexington , the Navy 's oldest aircraft carrier , was 17 miles south of its home port of Pensacola when the accident occurred , Coast Guard Lt. Mark Kasper said in New Orleans . The jet was assigned to Training Squadron 19 , based at the Meridian , Miss. , Naval Air Station , the Navy said . The victims ' identities were being withheld pending notification of next of kin . Navy helicopters took the injured to hospitals , Kasper said . A burn victim was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile . Kasper said that the Coast Guard sent a jet from Mobile to fly a team of ordnance experts in Panama City to Pensacola because the Navy apparently was concerned that fuel cells aboard the jet might explode after being damaged in the crash . The 46-year-old Lexington is the only aircraft carrier used by the Navy exclusively for training .
extractive_keyphrases: crash jet trainer flight deck major damage aircraft carrier lexington victims
abstractive_keyphrases: t-2 buckeye