Watch a pilot parachute from Navy plane that crashed in Lake Worth neighborhood
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Crash of a Navy training jet
A Sunday afternoon turned into chaos for a neighborhood in Lake Worth.
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Video taken by a resident shows one of two Navy pilots parachuting away from a plane crash during a training flight in Lake Worth, Texas on Sunday morning, Sept. 19, 2021.
Both pilots ejected and were injured, authorities said. They were being treated at local hospitals.
Neighbors described one pilot’s flight suit catching fire after he became caught on power lines. Paramedics quickly responded and put out the fire, witnesses said.
The pilot who got caught in the power lines was electrocuted, police said in a news release. Firefighters and police officers disconnected the pilot from his parachute and he was taken by helicopter to the burn unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas in critical condition.
“Although badly burnt, the pilot was conscious, alert and breathing,” Lake Worth police said in a news release.
The other pilot landed in nearby woods and was taken to a hospital by ambulance with serious but not life threatening injuries. The names of the pilots have not been released.
Three residents had minor injuries from the crash when the plane landed in a back yard, three homes were damaged and power was out in the neighborhood.
This story was originally published September 19, 2021 at 6:54 PM.
