เกิดเหตุเครื่องบินรบของกองทัพสหรัฐฯ ตกในประเทศชิลี เหตุดังกล่าวเกิดขึ้นเมื่อเครื่องบินรบ AFA18 ของกองทัพสหรัฐฯ ซึ่งเป็นเครื่องบินแบบ 2 ที่นั่ง สูญเสียการควบคุมและตกใส่บ้าน 2 หลัง ในชานเมืองซานติอาโก แต่นักบินประจำเครื่องสามารถดีดตัวออกจากเครื่องบินมาได้อย่างปลอดภัย ก่อนที่เครื่องบินจะตก
ทางการเมืองซานติอาโก ระบุว่า มีผู้เสียชีวิตในที่เกิดเหตุ 3 คน ขณะนี้ยังไม่ทราบสาเหตุที่ทำให้เครื่องบินประสบอุบัติเหตุ แต่นักบินเปิดเผยว่า เครื่องยนต์ของเครื่องบินเกิดขัดข้องก่อนที่จะตก
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AFA 18 คงเป็นเครื่องแบบใหม่ เหอะๆ อ่านแล้วงงดีจริงๆ ผู้จัดการ
AN F/A-18 fighter jet has crashed into a residential neighbourhood in San Diego, killing at least three people.�
Two houses were destroyed by the crash and a third was set on fire.�
Officials have confirmed that three people have died and another is missing.�
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders said. We know that there might have been a grandmother and a mother and two children (in one of the homes).�
The bodies of the victims were found in the scorched rubble of the crash site.�
Witnesses said the pilot had tried desperately to avoid houses, before being forced to eject just seconds before the plane hit the pavement.�
Dennis Connor, 50, told the San Diego Union-Tribune he saw the saw plane coming in at a 45-degree angle.�
He was trying to get to the canyon, Mr Connor said. He held on as long as could. At the last second, the pilot parachuted out.�
The plane smashed into pieces. Mr Connor said an engine was the only part he could distinguish. A box of electronics was left in the bushes.�
Everything was just mangled aluminium, Mr Connor said.�
Jason Whitmer told the LA Times he talked to the pilot after he ejected and landed.�
He was pretty shook up," Mr Whitmer said. "And pretty concerned if he had killed anyone. He had seen his bird go into a house.�
The Federal Aviation Administration said the US military plane had crashed as it made its approach to land at a military base in Miramar - used for the Top Gun film.
Marine Corps spokesman Jay Delarosa told the San Diego Union-Tribune the plane was a two-seat F/A-18 Hornet, from the 3rd Marine Air Wings training squadron. It was en route from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, operating in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego.
It is believed there was one pilot on board, who ejected safely.�
The plane came down near Cather Avenue and Huggins Street, University City. Witnesses told how homes shook and flames "were shooting as high as the light pole".�
Local media reports said the plane "barely missed" a local high school.
More than 60 firefighters tackled the blaze and the jets wreckage was scattered across the street.�
Scott Bloom, a local bank worker, said he was on his way to visit elderly clients when he saw the pilot eject from the low-flying plane.�
"I thought I was dreaming," he said. "It was so surreal."�
He said the plane was silent in the moments before the crash. He said he arrived at his clients home two houses away from the houses struck by the plane.�
"I was very afraid for my clients," he said. "My heart was beating and I ran up to their house and there was smoke and flames all over the street."�
Resident Scott Patterson told KNX radio "we saw two big bangs", according to CBS. "The smoke came up. We dont know what it was."�
Ben Dishman told MSNBC that the crash shook his house about a block away in the densely populated area and that officials were warning residents to move back.�
"I knew definitely it was an explosion. ... It was pretty strong," he said.�
Shelby Lovitt, a senior at University High school, said she heard a loud boom and saw a plane go down. The school has been locked down and no one is allowed to leave, she said.�
The BBC said the San Diego Fire Department described the scene of the crash as "a heavily populated area" near the 805 freeway.
The Miramar base was used for the filming of Tom Cruises hit film Top Gun and the F-18 is used widely in the Marine Corps and Navy.
One eyewitness told a local TV reporter the plane had spiralled out of control like a scene from the 1986 movie.
"It just spiralled right out of Top Gun. It came flying down. My mother screamed," he said.
One pilot parachuted onto a school playing field. "He just looked like he was dazed like Oh, my God, what happened over civilian air space?," the eyewitness said.�
With AFP
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