"The pilot safely ejected from the aircraft and was in stable condition, according to U.S. Air Force Sgt. Jovante Johnson. The F-16C Fighting Falcon was assigned to the Air Force Thunderbirds, an aerial acrobatic demonstration team based at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, Johnson said in an email. The crash took place at around 10:45 a.m. during a training mission, he wrote. The cause of the crash is under investigation."
"A motorist, Darren Springer, 60, said he was driving south out of Death Valley when he saw an explosion that sent up a thick plume of black smoke. "My heart sank," he said. He looked through a pair of binoculars and saw the wreckage of a fighter jet strewn across the desert floor at the edge of the Searles dry lake. That was followed by a response from "just about every emergency vehicle you could imagine," he said."
An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds crashed near Trona during a training mission at about 10:45 a.m. The pilot safely ejected from the aircraft and was in stable condition. The Thunderbirds are an aerial acrobatic demonstration team based at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The cause of the crash is under investigation. A motorist driving south out of Death Valley reported seeing an explosion, a thick plume of black smoke, and wreckage strewn across the desert floor near Searles dry lake, followed by numerous emergency vehicles. The crash occurred about 20 miles from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
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