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F-16 pilot safely ejects during emergency landing in Arizona

By Katelyn Caralle
Published April 24, 2018 7:10pm ET
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F-16 pilot safely ejects during emergency landing in Arizona
In this 2001 photo, an F-16 takes off, with afterburners glowing, from an Air National Guard base. | (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

An Air Force pilot safely ejected from an F-16C on Tuesday during an emergency landing at Arizona’s Lake Havasu Airport, according to the Air Force.

The jet, which was assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing, had been diverted and was trying to land at Lake Havasu Municipal Airport, according to the official Twitter account at Luke Air Force Base.

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