00:00The Blue Angels pilot who was booted from the elite squad for quote failing to uphold standards was spotted in
00:06public for the first time since the news of his firing.
00:09The mystery over why Scott Locks was canned appeared to deepen last week after it was revealed that a female
00:14officer from the famed stunt flying team had also been scrubbed from the team's website,
00:19although a source denied to the post that their removals were related.
00:23With rumors swirling, Locks was seen shirtless Thursday, November 12th at his home in Pensacola, Florida, alongside his wife, Lisa
00:30Locks.
00:31Earlier in the day, Locks was seen heading out alone to grab a bite to eat at a Popeyes restaurant
00:36near his home and came out wearing sunglasses, a sky blue polo and black shorts.
00:41According to an eyewitness, Scott cut a lonely figure in Popeyes checking his phone while eating on his own.
00:47He seemed to be in a pensive mood, like he had a lot on his mind.
00:51Information has been fairly limited on why or when the Navy dismissed Major Scott Locks, a second-year pilot for
00:58the elite stunt squadron who flew in the number six position,
01:01which required him to conduct high-speed maneuvers and passes in the air to woo crowds all across the United
01:07States.
01:08During one of the team's final performances of the year at the NAS Pensacola Air Show on November 6,
01:14the Pensacola News Journal reported that the Blue Angels flew five jets instead of their usual six.
01:19This whole thing started over the weekend, not with the Navy saying anything,
01:24but actually it was spectators at the Pensacola Air Show who pointed out that there was one plane missing from
01:34the Blue Angels' typical six-plane formation.
01:37With that realization, the Pensacola News Journal reached out to the Navy,
01:43who then confirmed that Pilot No. 6, Scott Locks, had been removed from the team,
01:50but they hadn't said anything beforehand about his removal.
01:53That same day, the Chief of Naval Air Training Public Affairs Office released a statement confirming Locks' removal, writing,
02:00Blue Angel No. 6 was removed from the team for failing to uphold the standards expected of members of the
02:06Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
02:07and will now participate in the team's remaining performances this season.
02:12Locks was relatively new to the Blue Angels, joining the high-flying squad in September 2024
02:17and serving as the team's narrator in 2025.
02:20In 2026, he started flying in the group's No. 6 position.
02:24The major graduated from the U.S. Navy Academy in 2012 and married a fellow Naval Academy cadet in 2013.
02:31According to his now-scrubbed biography, the 37-year-old accumulated more than 1,300 flight hours
02:37with stints at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California and aboard the USS Nimitz.
02:43The pilot's military honors include two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals and multiple unit awards.
02:49But a new twist to the high-flying firing scandal has dredged up more questions than answers.
02:54When eagle-eyed plane watchers noticed that Locks' photo and biographical page
02:58weren't the only ones removed from the Blue Angels' official website.
03:02To deepen the mystery even further, a second member of the Blue Angels,
03:07who was the public affairs head, Captain Danielle Cribb, went missing from their website also recently.
03:14So her biography and photo no longer appear on the Blue Angels' official website,
03:18and the Navy hasn't responded to anything about why that may be.
03:22Cribb, who served as the squadron's public affairs head, was seemingly close to Locks.
03:27The pair were photographed together at a Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball game in April,
03:32when Locks presented her an award for her promotion behind home plate.
03:36In the social media post's caption, Locks was described as Cribb's, quote, mentor.
03:41Cribb, who was raised in South Carolina, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2012,
03:45and was deployed to Japan and Qatar when she contributed to aviation operations and combat mission planning,
03:52according to a copy of her biography still available online.
03:55She was commissioned as an officer in 2021 and joined the Blue Angels in September 2025.
04:00I spoke to some family members of Cribb today who declined to discuss her employment status
04:06or details surrounding her disappearing from the website,
04:10but they seemed frustrated that her name was being brought in the same kind of public conversation as Locks's.
04:18They denied that she has anything to do with him and basically declined to give any other information.
04:25The Blue Angels are a mainstay aerobatic flight squadron at more than 30 air shows across the United States.
04:31Known for their death-defying stunts, the squadron was formed in 1946
04:35to showcase the power of the Navy and Marines in the sky.
04:39The squadron includes more than 150 active duty service members,
04:43with a total of 17 officers who voluntarily serve.
04:46The main demonstration team is made up of six pilots, with a seventh jet reserved for a narrator.
04:52The Navy did not respond to the post's request for comment on Sunday regarding Locks and Cribb.
04:56Locks and his family members have not publicly addressed his departure from the Blue Angels
05:02and when I tried to call him and his family members today,
05:07I was either hung up on or my voicemails were not returned.
