F-16, Cessna Planes Collide Mid-air in South Carolina
CHARLESTON , July 7 (UPI) — A fighter plane and a small private plane collided in mid-air Tuesday morning near Charleston, S. C., the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
The F-16 fighter jet smashed into the small plane, killing two people and raining down plane parts and debris over a wide swath of marshes and rice fields.
Two people were aboard the smaller Cessna, which was completely destroyed, and both died, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said. The pilot of the F-16 ejected and “is apparently uninjured,” he said. Lt. Jenny Hyden, a spokeswoman for Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, said the pilot was taken to the base for observation.
The collision occurred about 11 miles north of the city of Charleston.
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