A fighter f-35 He crashed yesterday during a training exercise at a base in Alaska. NBC News reports it, stressing that the pilot is unharmed. The pilot had a “malfunction in flight” but managed to eject himself from the planesaid the colonel Paul Townsendcommander of 354th Fighter Wing, at the press conference.
The plane crashed during the landing phase Flight to the Eielson air base, he said. The pilot had declared an emergency in flight before the accident and is in stable conditions and in the evaluation phase at a medical structure, he added. The accident, which took place in the early afternoon of yesterday, caused significant damage to the plane, said the Air Force in a declaration. Townsend said that the military aeronautics will lead “an in -depth investigation into the hope of minimizing the possibilities that these events occur again”.