Two people in a vintage fighter jet ejected dramatically just before it crashed and sent up an expansive black cloud of smoke during a Michigan air show Sunday, authorities say.
Two people in a vintage fighter jet ejected dramatically just before it crashed and sent up an expansive black cloud of smoke during a Michigan air show Sunday, authorities said.
The two, a pilot and a passenger sitting tandem in the Soviet-era MiG-23, were hospitalized as a precaution but appeared to be free of serious injuries, Randy Wimbley, the spokesperson for the Wayne County Airport Authority, said in a statement. No one on the ground was reported injured, and the vehicles struck by the jet were unoccupied, Wimbley said.the two on the plane, who made it to the ground safely with parachutes, landed in Belleville Lake.
The fighter was flying as part of the Thunder Over Michigan air show hosted by the Yankee Air Museum, which lists itself in Belleville but which shares a property, the Willow Run Airport, in Ypsilanti Charter Township — both western suburbs of Detroit. The two-day air show was near the end of its second day when the crash took place at shortly after 4 p.m. NBC affiliateWimbley described the aircraft as a demonstration plane.Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
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