Family, friends and shipmates pay their respects to LT. CDR. J. Stacy Bates and LT. Graham Alden Higgins outside AIRMAN Memorial Chapel in a memorial service for the fallen aviators. Bates and Higgins, attached to Fighter Squadron Two One Three (VF-213), the Blacklions, died when the F-14 Tomcat aircraft they were flying crashed near Nashville, Tennessee while returning from a cross-country flight on January 29, 1996