Fighter Jet's Engine Quit Before It Crashed in Arizona, NTSB Says
4 Mar 2022
Associated Press | By Bob Christie
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The pilot of a fighter jet operated by a military contractor that crashed outside Phoenix last month reported a fuel problem and then a failure of the jet's engine before he ejected and the plane went down in the open desert, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The French-built Mirage F1 was flying out of Luke Air Force Base in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale on Feb. 10 on a mission to help train military fighter pilots from the training base.
The NTSB report says the pilot was flying with another contractor jet operating out of Luke as aggressors, planes that simulate attacks on competing fighters. The two supersonic Mirage fighters split up to work in a military operations area northwest of Phoenix, and near the end of the activity the pilot reported there was a discrepancy in two cockpit fuel indicators.
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