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USAF F-16 Crashes into Building at March Air Reserve Base, Pilot Ejects, Injuries on the Ground.
May 17, 2019 Tom Demerly 4 Comments
Composite image showing an F-16 of the SD ANG landing at RAF Lakenheath in 2016 and the F-16's jettisoned canopy, ejection seat and the pilot's parachute that could be seen in local news helicopter video. (Photos: The Aviationist/Tony Lovelock and screenshots via NBC News)
California Air Nation Guard Pilot Being Evaluated, Aircraft Was from South Dakota ANG.
A U.S. Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed into a large warehouse building while attempting to land at March Reserve Air Force Base in Riverside County, California on Thursday afternoon, May 16, 2019 at approximately 3:45 PM local time. The pilot of the aircraft ejected and is being evaluated in a local hospital according to news outlets.
The building where the aircraft impacted was near Van Buren Boulevard just west of the runway at March Reserve Air Force Base. News video showed the canopy from the F-16, the pilot’s parachute and ejection seat lying on the runway. A witness named Cameron Lee told NBC reporters Alex Johnson and Andrew Blankstein that he saw the F-16, “tilting from side to side” as it approached the runway. Lee went on to tell reporters, “As soon as I saw it begin tilting, the pilot ejected,” Lee said. “He went off to the right [and] the plane went over to the left.”
The F-16 crashed into a building next to the runway on landing after the pilot ejected. (Photo: screenshot via NBC News)
According to reports published by the local ABC News affiliate from reporter Luis Martinez, “The pilot belongs to the 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard and the aircraft belongs to the South Dakota Air National Guard in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.” Some of the F-16 aircraft at March Reserve Air Force Base are tasked with the Homeland Security mission of regional air defense. It is not known if this aircraft was operating in the Homeland Security role at the time of the accident or if there was live ordinance onboard the aircraft.
Dramatic video surfaced on Twitter immediately following the crash that showed the F-16, clearly identifiable from its vertical stabilizer, resting inside the warehouse where it crashed under a large hole in the roof. There did not appear to be any fire in the video. The man taking the video is heard to remark, “That’s a military airplane in our building.”