F-18 Crash Kills 3 in San Diego Neighborhood
Monday, December 8, 2008 8:30 PM
Foxnews
SAN DIEGO — A Marine Corps pilot safely ejected before his fighter jet crashed into a neighborhood Monday in a fiery explosion that killed three people on the ground and destroyed two homes.
The F/A-18D Hornet went down just before noon as it prepared to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, best known as the setting for the movie "Top Gun." Explosions rocked a neighborhood of half-million-dollar homes and flames and plumes of smoke streaked skyward.
"The house shook, the ground shook. It was like I was frozen in my place," said Steve Krasner, who lives a few blocks from the crash. "It was bigger than any earthquake I ever felt."
Three people were killed in a house where two children, a mother and a grandmother were believed to be inside at the time of the crash, but fire officials did not immediately know who died. Another person remained missing.
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