Military training jet crashes in Texas, injuring both pilots
The HinduA military training jet crashed on Sunday in a neighbourhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said. “This incident could have been much worse knowing that this plane went down in a residential area,” Lake Worth Fire Chief Ryan Arthur said of the crash, which was reported to authorities shortly before 11 a.m. One of the pilots was electrocuted after being caught in power lines, Lake Worth police said in a statement, adding that “although badly burnt, the pilot was conscious, alert and breathing.” Police said the the second pilot was found in a wooded area a short distance away. The chief of naval air training in Corpus Christi said in a Facebook post on Sunday evening that the instructor pilot was in stable condition, while the student naval aviator was in serious condition. The jet was a Navy T-45C Goshawk assigned to Training Air Wing 2 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, about 420 miles south of Lake Worth, the chief of naval air training said in the post.
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