View F18 Crash Kern County Background. A us air force official confirmed the crash. It's unclear if there were one or two crewmembers in the plane.

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Bill smallwood of the kern county sheriffs department. The pilot ejected before impact. Kern county fire department said the jet crashed near highway 14 and highway 178 in ridgecrest.

An eyewitness said the crash looked like something out of a movie.

This is video just in from the scene near the robbers roost rock formation in east kern county (near hwy 14 and hwy 178 junction). Toward the end of this clip you can see the blackened the crash happened near one of the most famous plane spotting locations of the united states, the rainbow canyon. We provide links to air crash investigation/mayday/air disasters and other similarly named shows. Chp searching for driver who fled crash that injured 3.