NAVAL AIR STATION LEMOORE , Calif. (KFSN) --An investigation is underway at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore after a CHP chase ends with two people dead.
Officials say the incident started around 4 a.m. on Thursday with a wrong way driver on Highway 198 -- heading towards NAS Lemoore. The California Highway Patrol chased the vehicle as it crashed through the south fence of the airfield and then crashed into an F/A-18 fighter jet on the south side of Naval Air Station Lemoore.
Both the driver and the passenger of the vehicle died in the crash. They have not been identified.
via abc30.com
Welp, there's your wild story of the day. And you just know the jet is badly enough damaged that it's probably a strike.
And you damn well know the dead driver didn't have insurance.
Can you see the claims agent at Geico getting this one?
Posted by: McThag | 03/31/2016 at 09:39 AM
The flight line is a long way from Lemoore's front gate. Could he have hit the static gate guard just inside the base?
Posted by: RJM | 03/31/2016 at 10:57 AM
Wow...thats crazy stupid..... I blame the base. This story should have read something to the effect that the civilians were interdicted in their vehicle as it approached the aircraft. Have these guys never heard of "Hadji"?
Posted by: terribletroy | 03/31/2016 at 12:20 PM
RJM- flight line's a long way from the front gate, yeah, but the article says the crashed through the fence.
Posted by: LT Rusty | 03/31/2016 at 01:08 PM
News is now saying they actually drove the distance (about 5 mi) from the front gate and got on the flight line. Sounds like security has some explaining to do.
Posted by: RJM | 03/31/2016 at 02:43 PM