The pilot, a member of the Air Force’s Thunderbirds aerobatics team, managed to safely eject
A US F-16C crashed during a training mission over California on Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported.
The plane came down in an unpopulated desert area around 130 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles in a zone used for live weapons testing, Stars and Stripes military news outlet said on Wednesday.
A video circulating on social media purports to show a fireball rising from the crash site, with the pilot parachuting down some distance away.
According to the US Air Force, the plane belonged to its premier air demonstration squadron.
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