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WTHR staff and Associated Press
Oaktown, May 17 - Two military F-16 fighter jets collided Monday in southwestern Indiana, Indiana State Police said. An eyewitness says that a military pilot was killed, but no deaths or injuries were immediately confirmed.
Sgt. Greg Winkler said the jets collided about 1:40 p.m. over Oaktown, about 40 miles south of Terre Haute. He said he believed the wreckage landed in an open field.
The planes are out of the 181st Fighter Wing based in Terre Haute. They were on a training exercise.
A Knox County emergency services, who not give his name, said the county coroner had been sent to the scene, but would not confirm any fatalities.
Don Kirkham, a former Knox County sheriff, said he was mowing his lawn when he heard a boom or explosion and then looked up to see a man parachuting down. He said he drove to that area and found two other people comforting the pilot, who was agitated and had head wounds.
"He's OK. He's bleeding from facial wounds," Kirkham said.
"All he was concerned about was his buddy. He said `I'm not worried about anything but my buddy,' so we cornered him and got him into an ambulance," Kirkham said.
Karla Caballero, manager of Da Bar & Grill in Oaktown, said she was talking on the phone to her mother when she heard what she assumed was a sonic boom.
About 15 minutes later, she said a man came into the bar and said he saw a pilot parachute down along nearby U.S. 41 who said he spoke to the pilot, who appeared fine.
"This man said the pilot was OK," Caballero said.
She said other people said they saw smoke coming from an area about six to eight miles south of the rural town of about 800 people.
WTHR staff and Associated Press
Oaktown, May 17 - Two military F-16 fighter jets collided Monday in southwestern Indiana, Indiana State Police said. An eyewitness says that a military pilot was killed, but no deaths or injuries were immediately confirmed.
Sgt. Greg Winkler said the jets collided about 1:40 p.m. over Oaktown, about 40 miles south of Terre Haute. He said he believed the wreckage landed in an open field.
The planes are out of the 181st Fighter Wing based in Terre Haute. They were on a training exercise.
A Knox County emergency services, who not give his name, said the county coroner had been sent to the scene, but would not confirm any fatalities.
Don Kirkham, a former Knox County sheriff, said he was mowing his lawn when he heard a boom or explosion and then looked up to see a man parachuting down. He said he drove to that area and found two other people comforting the pilot, who was agitated and had head wounds.
"He's OK. He's bleeding from facial wounds," Kirkham said.
"All he was concerned about was his buddy. He said `I'm not worried about anything but my buddy,' so we cornered him and got him into an ambulance," Kirkham said.
Karla Caballero, manager of Da Bar & Grill in Oaktown, said she was talking on the phone to her mother when she heard what she assumed was a sonic boom.
About 15 minutes later, she said a man came into the bar and said he saw a pilot parachute down along nearby U.S. 41 who said he spoke to the pilot, who appeared fine.
"This man said the pilot was OK," Caballero said.
She said other people said they saw smoke coming from an area about six to eight miles south of the rural town of about 800 people.
