US Air Force ‘Thunderbirds’ F-16 Jet Crashes in Nevada, Killing Pilot
A Pakistani F-16 fighter jet flies past during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2017.
Pakistan National Day commemorates the passing of the Lahore Resolution, when a separate nation for the Muslims of The British Indian Empire was demanded on March 23, 1940. AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images
WASHINGTON—A U.S. Air Force pilot with the traveling Thunderbirds exhibition squad was killed early Wednesday when his F-16 jet crashed at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada, the third crash involving a military aircraft in the past two days.
“It’s been a rough day,” an Air Force spokesman said.
