The pilot, a member of the Air Force’s Thunderbirds aerobatics team, managed to safely eject A US F-16C crashed during a training mission over California on Wednesday morning, the Air Force reported. The plane came down in an unpopulated desert area around 130 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles in a zone used for live weapons testing, the Stars and Stripes military news outlet said on Wednesday. A video circulating on social media purports to show a fireball rising from the crash site,