Chinese Fighter Jet Crashes in Nosedive - One survivor, One dead

by UNCENSORED NEWS | October 14, 2011 at 12:30 pm

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Today a panic stricken crowd of people less than a mile from the crash site, viewing the troubled airplane as if they were show onlookers were saddened when a Chinese Fighter Jet plummeted to the ground in a heavy nose dive. One pilot ejected himself to safety but the other pilot is presumed dead. The crash is being investigated and it wasn't clear if mechanical problems or pilot error was to blame. "Xinhua said the plane was a two-seater JH-7 "Flying Leopard" fighter-bomber, but AFP cited a report that it was a Xiaolong or "Fierce Dragon" fighter jet. At least one of the planes crashed previously — during a China-Russian joint exercise in 2009, killing both pilots. "

BEIJING — A Chinese air force jet crashed at an air show Friday, leaving one of the pilots missing and presumed dead. Only one parachute was seen opening, and the plane burst into flames upon crashing. The other pilot's seat appeared not to have ejected. The pilot who ejected suffered only minor injuries, but his comrade appeared to have been trapped in the doomed plane, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing eyewitnesses and air show organizer, He Liang.