There was information about the fall of a fighter designed to simulate an air battle with the enemy during the training of American pilots. Videos from the crash site have also been released.
New video from a nearby business shows the moments leading up to the plane crash near Nellis AFB. You can see the plane drop from the sky and second later a plume of smoke @8NewsNow pic.twitter.com/zYoi9GSNW3
— Joe Moeller (@joemoeller44) May 26, 2021
A video posted on Twitter shows the moment the plane crashed into residential areas and a rising cloud of smoke. And on YouTube there was a video directly from the crash site, where the plane is burning.
According to the "Military Review", a French-made Mirage F1 light fighter crashed near Las Vegas. It was used at the US base Nellis in Nevada as a simulated enemy of the US Air Force during training dogfights. When the plane crashed, the pilot was killed. Now there is an investigation of the incident.
Meanwhile, it became known that during the fatal departure of the Mirage F1 acted as an opponent for the F-15 fighter training squadron of the US Air Force. According to some reports, there could be a "contact" of two fighters in the air.
As told by a local resident Maria Gonzalez, near the house of which the plane crashed, first there was a loud sound, and then smoke fell and a fire broke out. So far, there have been no reports of casualties or injuries on the ground. It is also not reported what kind of enemy the crashed plane depicted.
Mikhail Rusin