A Navy fighter jet crashed Friday in the Southern California desert, killing the pilot, authorities said.
An F/A-18E Super Hornet based at Naval Air Station Lemoore went down at about 2:30 pm in the area of Trona, an unincorporated Mojave Desert community in San Bernardino County, the Navy announced in a statement.
Nobody on the ground was hurt.
The identity of the pilot and details of the crash weren’t immediately released.
Trona is about 236 miles (380 kilometers) southeast of the air station, which is in the Central Valley.
