Two people killed after an F-16 fighter jet collided with a small plane on Tuesday over South Carolina.
The small plane was totally destroyed while the pilot of the jet fighter "is apparently uninjured," Peter Knudson, spokesperson of the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed.
During the press released at the Shaw Air Force in Sumter, the pilot was identified as Maj. Aaron Johnson, who belong to the 55th Fighter Squadron. He is now at the Joint Base Charleston's medical clinic for health observation.h
The fighter jet crashed into Lewisfield Plantation, a privately owned land with an estate dating to 1750.
According to Yahoo news, the workers of the plantation headed towards the flaming crashed area, they only found burning metal, splintered tree and a crater, the eyewitnesses said.
Michael Mule, spokesman for Berkeley confirmed there were no signs or reports of anyone injured or properties being damaged after the debris from the collation scattered over sparsely populated areas about 20 miles Northwest of Charleston.
Military officials said that the pilot of the fighter jet was flying all by himself, and was communicating with Charleston air traffic controllers and going through instrument approaches by the time the accident happen.
Col. Stephen Jost commander of the 20th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base said that the plantation worker was the one who help the pilot after parachuted to the ground. Then he was taken to the Berkeley Country EMS then forwarded to Charleston Base.
Officials are now reviewing if the flight plan was filed for they found out that the civilian pilot is supposed to travel to Myrtle Beach.
The Air Force has flown F-16s since 1970s for fly training missions.
The small plane with just only two seats was a Cessna 150. It is considered to be one of the common single engine aircraft in the U.S.
