Prayers please

[milohimself]

A fighter jet went down just 20-ish minutes ago over in Hillsboro at the Oregon International Air Show. It was an older British fighter jet, word is it struck 2-4 houses.

 

[milohimself]

Other reports saying it could have been an F-18...

 

[USAF_Vol]

Oh no. I hope everyone is OK.

 

[milohimself]

nvm. It was a Hawker Hunter.

 

[milohimself]

No parachutes seen so the pilot at least probably went down with it.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

Wow this is awful! I hope injuries and deaths are kept to a minimal considering the situation. Keep us updated.

 

[milohimself]

Reports have a fireball sized about 60-80 feet... Air show shut down. Has to be a lot of people, it draws 60,000-70,000 people per year.

 

[milohimself]

The woman who owns the house that was most directly struck luckily was in Portland.

 

[milohimself]

It looks on tv like the firefighters have contained and nearly expelled the flames. They're showing rough photos of the explosion. It was HUGE.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

No word on any deaths?

 

[milohimself]

None yet... Probably just the pilot that I know of, but news on it is slow in coming.

 

[surrealvol]

So very sorry to hear about this, milo...prayers will be said for the pilot and anyone else involved...

 

[milohimself]

Only confirmed death is that of the pilot. He was taking off at 4:28PST from the Hillsboro Airport, facing northwest. He then made a turn east, then looked like something was wrong as he turned south. Then he went down a ways east of the airport, and took out two houses. Four houses suffered damage, one house struck directly was obliterated. The owner of this house was in Portland for the day, the house was vacant. There were two people in the house next door who were fortunately on the opposite side of where the crash was and made it out before their house burned down. There was another house adjacent that was basically completely burned, although a skeleton of the structure still stands. Then one more house has some minor fire damage. There were also supposedly two kids selling raffle tickets for a little league team who knocked on the door of the house that was directly hit... They were at the next house when the plane crashed. Thank God they made it out safe.

I don't know if the pilot's identity was released yet... But it was known that he was a lawyer from southern California and a trained pilot. He was confirmed dead pretty much immediately.

 

[milohimself]

http://www.katu.com/stories/87630.html

Check out the videos. Look at what happened to the house...