Crews are responding to a military aircraft crash near University and Rio Bravo Tuesday afternoon. AFR says one person was rescued from the downed aircraft.
The crash occurred just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday after the jet took off from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The aircraft was an F-35B test jet on its way to Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California.
In a dramatic turn of events, an F-35 fighter jet bound for California crashed near Albuquerque, sending up a massive plume of smoke and leaving its pilot seriously injured after a narrow escape.
The jet had been flying from a Lockheed Martin facility at the Naval Air Reserve Station in Fort Worth, Texas to Edwards Air Force Base in California when it crashed.
The jet was en route to Edwards Air Force Base in California from Fort Worth, Texas, when the incident occurred, according to a spokesperson for Lockheed Martin, which builds the fifth-generation fighter jets.
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