San Diego Plane Crash F-18 December 8 2008fa18d-fighter-san-diego

SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA – An F-18 crashed in San Diego today killing 3 on the ground. The pilot ejected safely from his F/A-18D Hornet. According to officials at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar the crash happened 2 miles from Miramar “Former Top Gun School used in the filming of the Tom Cruise movie Top Gun from the 1980’s” in an area known as University City in La Jolla Ca. The wreckage consumed 3 homes as it crashed to the densely populated neighborhood. The Jet Fighter Plane was returning to Miramar from the USS Lincoln which is a Navy Carrier stationed in San Diego.

Witnesses reported loud explosions and a mushroom cloud when the fighter came down. They reported their homes shaking like there might be an earthquake shaking the earth.

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