Pilot Safe After F-16 Crashes Into Atlantic
An Air Force jet on a training flight crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday about 1 1/2 miles off the New Jersey coast.
The pilot was rescued by a New Jersey State Police boat and taken to a hospital for observation, said Staff Sgt. Barbara Harbison of the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
The pilot reported a problem with the oil pressure on the F-16 just before the engine failed about 3:40 p.m. and the jet went down, department spokesman Ray Martyniuk said.
It was the third U.S. crash this month involving an F-16.
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