A Marine jet fighter crashed into a residential area near Marine Air Station Miramar today. The press is reporting that at least three people have died. The pilot survived.
A Top Gun pilot ejected moments before his fighter jet crashed into a heavily populated residential neighbourhood in San Diego, California, last night killing at least three people on the ground.
Two houses burst into flames when the F-18 plane plummeted to earth two miles short of a Marine Corps air base of Miramar.
The stunned pilot parachuted to safety and was seen staggering dazed near the crash site in the San Diego suburb of Universal City but later city officials said three people on the ground had been killed and a fourth was missing.
(The Daily Mail is confused. Miramar is not the base where Top Gun is located. Miramar is a Marine Air Station now, Top Gun relocated in 1996 to Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada.)
