An F-22 fighter jet crashed at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The pilot ejected and has been taken to the base hospital.
Friday morning during a routine training mission, a base spokeswoman has confirmed.
The pilot, whose name has not been released, ejected from the aircraft and was taken to the base hospital, said Ilka Cole, a spokeswoman for the 96th Test Wing, which is the host unit at Eglin AFB.First responders were on the scene of the crash, about 12 miles northeast of the main base in a remote part of the reservation, Cole said. The sprawling Eglin reservation covers hundreds of thousands of acres across Northwest Florida.
The F-22 Raptor was on a routine training mission at the time of the crash, Cole said, and was not part of a flyover scheduled Friday morning to honor first responders and hospital personnel for their work on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. The F-22 is the most sophisticated fighter plane flown in the military. It has radar-evading stealth capabilities and the ability to destroy multiple targets. Its production was halted during the war in Iraq when it was viewed as too expensive and ill-suited to the counter-insurgency wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The plane had been plagued by cost overruns and delays since its development in the final days of the Cold War. The Air Force envisioned a fleet of 648 F-22s. When the final F-22 was delivered to the Air Force in 2012, the program cost more than $67 billion and had produced 183 planes.Contributing: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
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