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F-16 fighter crashes near Air Force training base

(4/12/06 - GLENDALE, AZ) - An Air Force F-16 fighter crashed Tuesday about two miles southwest of Luke Air Force Base, but the pilot ejected safely, authorities said.

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The single-seat F-16 crashed into a field just after takeoff from the training base west of Phoenix, base spokeswoman Mary Jo May said.

It came down in a farm field some distance from any homes or businesses along a corridor kept clear of development.

Capt. Jason Attaway, 26, of Dallas, was taken to Banner Estrella Medical Center to be examined, but was later released. Attaway was assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing at the base and had just taken off on a training mission when he went down, May said.

Attaway had about 30 hours of flying time in the F-16, according to May.

Former Arizona Rep. Joe Hart, who was driving near the crash site and witnessed the plane going down, said the downed plane was accompanied by another jet. The aircraft were flying together at a low altitude when things went amiss.

"It just started falling, and all of a sudden the pilot ejected and the plane went in," Hart said. "The guy ejected real fast, and I saw the parachute and the plane just blew up."

Hart said he tried to locate the pilot, but he was apparently in another area. The pilot of the second jet was circling, Hart said.

Other would-be rescuers drove across the open farm field to get to the destroyed plane. Hart said he tried to warn them to stay clear because of the potential the jet carried unexploded ordnance.

Capt. Brady Smith said the aircraft was not armed.

Luke, in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, is the world's largest F-16 training base.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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I know this is strange, but tonight I got this wave video in an email tonight concerning an F-16 being forced down after a duck was sucked into the intake. Unrelated to Jason's occurance of course but gives you an idea how scary that must have been for him?

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/video/F_16_vs_bird_ejection.wmv

Rick

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