The State - News from Oct. 10, 1988
An experimental NASA jet serving as a chase plane for a research flight crashed in the Mojave Desert but the pilot ejected safely. Stephen Ishmael, 39, was flying a modified McDonnell Douglas Corp. FA18 when problems with the plane’s controls forced the pilot to eject, said Nancy Lovato, a NASA spokeswoman at Edwards Air Force Base. The flights originated at Edwards and Ishmael’s jet crashed near Boron, 10 miles east of the base and about 125 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
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