A parachute and other items remain outside an Ole Donut where one pilot landed after ejecting from a military training jet before it crashed Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, in Lake Worth, Texas. The jet crashed Sunday in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes but not seriously hurting anyone on the ground, authorities said. (Amanda McCoy, The Star-Telegram/TNS)
FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) — The trainer pilot who was injured in a military plane crash Sunday in Lake Worth was released Monday from Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, according to a tweet from Naval Air Training Command.
The instructor, who was not identified, ejected from a T-45C Goshawk training jet Sunday morning along with a student, who was still in serious condition Monday and receiving treatment for his injuries at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. One of the pilots, not yet identified by the Navy, struck power lines while descending with a parachute from the aircraft and caught fire.
The two ejected from the plane before it crashed into the back yard of a Lake Worth home in the area of Tejas Trail and Telephone Road, seriously damaging three homes and leaving three residents with minor injuries, sending at least one to the hospital, Lake Worth police said.
The neighborhood is near the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, in an area that the military has identified as a potential accident zone, because of its proximity to where planes take off and land, police said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
A statement on the Chief of Naval Air Training Facebook page said it was a Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft assigned to Training Air Wing 2 at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, that crashed in Lake Worth, about two miles north of Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.
The Navy is investigating the cause of the crash and conducting cleanup efforts.
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