By the Associated Press:
A military training jet crashed Sunday in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said.
Both pilots managed to eject from the plane before it crashed in Lake Worth, which is just west of Fort Worth, authorities said at a news conference.
“This incident could have been much worse knowing that this plane went down in a residential area,” Lake Worth Fire Chief Ryan Arthur said of the crash, which was reported to authorities shortly before 11 a.m.
Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian said one pilot’s parachute got tangled in power lines. One of the pilots was flown to a hospital in Dallas and was in critical condition, the Fort Worth Fire Department said in a statement. The other was driven to a hospital in Fort Worth.
The chief of naval air training in Corpus Christi said in a Facebook post that the training jet that crashed was a Navy T-45C Goshawk assigned to Training Air Wing 2 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, about 420 miles south of Lake Worth. The post said that the instructor pilot was in stable condition and the student naval aviator’s condition was unknown but he was alive and being treated.
The post says they were conducting a routine training flight that originated from the Corpus Christi International Airport, about 350 miles south of Lake Worth along the Gulf Coast.
Three homes were damaged and three residents of those homes were treated at the scene and released, the Fort Worth Fire Department said. The crash cut power to 44 homes in the area, and utility crews were working to restore it.
