Dashcam Video Shows The Moment An Air Force Pilot Ejected Before His F-16 Crashed Near A Highway

Business Insider/We Are The Mighty: Dashcam video shows the moment an Air Force pilot ejected before his F-16 crashed into a warehouse

* An armed F-16 crashed into a warehouse in California in mid-May.
* Footage recorded by a dashcam in a passing car caught the moment the pilot ejected from the aircraft over a freeway.

Last Thursday afternoon, commuters driving down the 215 Freeway adjacent to Riverside County, California's March Air Reserve Base witnessed an incredible sight.

A pilot was forced to eject from his F-16 Fighting Falcon carrying live ordnance over the highway, deploying his chute as the fighter careened into the roof of a nearby warehouse.

The single-engine fighter was headed back to March Air Reserve Base after completing a routine training mission in the nearby Moreno Valley when the pilot reported a hydraulics failure in the aircraft.

Read more ....

WNU Editor: this is something that you do not see everyday. You can see the pilot ejecting in the far left corner of the video. The image is small, but you can see him ejecting.