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| Two Marine jets collide off California coast, one pilot ejected | Two Marine jets collide off California coast, one pilot ejected |
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| Two jets have reportedly crashed near Miramar, a neighborhood in San Diego, KFMB is reporting. One pilot is reported safe, while another ejected and has yet to be found in the water. The area is home to a Marine Corps Air Station. | Two jets have reportedly crashed near Miramar, a neighborhood in San Diego, KFMB is reporting. One pilot is reported safe, while another ejected and has yet to be found in the water. The area is home to a Marine Corps Air Station. |
| The Marine Corps confirmed that two Third Marine Aircraft Wing single-seat F/A-18 Hornets collided in mid-air during a training mission at about 11:43am. | |
| The cause of the crash is being investigated. | |
| The same type of aircraft, and also out of MCAS Miramar, crashed near San Diego in 2008. The pilot, First Lieutenant Dan Neubauer, ejected from the F/A-18 and fell safely into a tree. The jet, however, killed two women and two children in one house in the residential area of University City. Two houses were destroyed, and a third was damaged. | |
| One pilot was able to safely land his jet at Naval Air Station North Island, but search crews have yet to find the other pilot who ejected. |