Navy Fighter Jet Crashes, Killing Pilot
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
An F/A-18C Hornet warplane crashed in an uninhabited area north of this Imperial Valley city Wednesday night, killing the pilot, the Navy announced.
The single-seat plane, part of a squadron based at the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, Calif., was on a routine training mission.
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