In a video, the aircraft appeared to be landing when the jet’s nose tips forward onto the ground and the front landing gear appears to snap off.
A pilot ejected from a military fighter jet, making a crash landing on a runway Thursday morning in Fort Worth. Video shows a pilot in the sky with a parachute after ejecting from an aircraft that had been hovering above the ground moments earlier.
Police responded at about 10:15 a.m. to the base near the town of White Settlement after receiving multiple calls about a military aircraft crash with a pilot ejecting, Cook toldCook said the Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin requested the police close off public areas around the runway because they worried people would encroach on federal property.
Cook said all roads had been opened Thursday afternoon and authorities would conduct their investigation. He said the plane belonged to Lockheed Martin.
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