A fighter jet crashed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California on Friday and erupted into flames, according to video from CNN affiliate KGTV. The aircraft involved was a F-35B Lightning II fighter jet, the Pentagon told KGTV.
The plane appeared to go down just short of the base’s runway, and airport fire crews sprayed the wreckage with firefighting foam and worked to extinguish a grass fire surrounding the crash site. The pilot ejected and has been recovered.
The F-35B can land like a conventional plane or vertically similar to a helicopter. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
