Air Force pilot safely ejects before F-16 fighter jet crashes in California desert

TRONA Calif AP A fighter jet with the Air Force s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday but the pilot managed to eject safely the military revealed Related Articles Black men who were fired from key transportation boards accuse Trump of a pattern of discrimination Hearing in Luigi Mangione s state murder incident sheds new light on his arrest Wall Street hangs near its all-time high as calm continues to hold A quiet corner of Arkansas has become a hot spot for US immigration crackdown AP finds US filings for jobless benefits fall to lowest since September of The pilot was being treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department The F- C Fighting Falcon crashed around a m during a training mission over controlled airspace in California according to a message from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada The fire department reported it had responded to an aircraft crisis near Trona an unincorporated neighborhood in the Mojave Desert about miles north of Los Angeles In a Navy F A- E Super Hornet crashed near Trona killing the pilot Wednesday s crash is under research and further information will be disclosed from the th Wing Society Affairs Office the Air Force declaration stated Like the Navy s Blue Angels the Air Force Thunderbirds perform their famous tight formations at air shows and train to fly within inches of each other The brief announcement from the Air Force did not give details on the circumstances of the crash The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds have had dozens of crashes in their long histories Formed in the Thunderbirds practice seasonally out of Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas Aircraft based there include F- Falcon and F- Raptor fighter jets as well as A- Warthog ground-attack jets