Military Plane Crashes in U.S.

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Military Plane Crashes in U.S.

An F-16 with the New Jersey Air National Guard crashed near a busy highway during a training mission Thursday morning, and the pilot ejected safely, officials said.

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An F-16 with the New Jersey Air National Guard crashed near a busy highway during a training mission Thursday morning, and the pilot ejected safely, officials said.

The pilot, based at the 177th Fighter Wing at Pomona, was found at Warren Grove, a 2,400-acre bombing range, officials said. His name was not immediately released.

"He appears to be OK and is being transported to a local hospital for evaluation," guard spokeswoman Natasha Zoe said.

The plane was not involved in a combat mission, Col. John Dwyer said.

It crashed near the Garden State Parkway, and debris was scattered across the highway, a major north-south route, said John Hagerty, a state police spokesman. No cars on the parkway were damaged.

Air National Guard pilots stationed at Pomona fly four- to seven-hour sorties in which F-16s cruise above metropolitan New York at speeds of up to 1,500 mph.

F-16s, designed to attack both air and ground targets, were used extensively during the Gulf War and to patrol no-fly zones in Iraq.

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