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Fighter jet crashes in France
  • This photo provided by the Morbihan Prefecture shows the crash site of F16 jet fighter, Thursday, Sept.19, 2019 in Pluvigner, western France. A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving one of the two pilots dangling by his parachute from a high-voltage electricity line for two hours, French authorities said. (Prefecture du Morbihan via AP)
  • This picture taken on September 19, 2019 in Pluvigner, western France, shows a truck with a crane used to save a pilot from a power line after his F-16 fighter jet of the Belgian air force crashed. - Parts from the stricken plane, which was not carrying weapons and was flying from Belgium to a French base on a training mission, crashed into houses in the Morbihan region around the town of Pluvigner with both pilots successfully ejecting but one spending two hours hanging from a power line before being cut down, officials said. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP) (Photo credit should read JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP/Getty Images)
  • French gendarmes block the road leading the site of a jet crash near Pluvigner, western France, Thursday, Sept.19, 2019. A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught, according to French authorities. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
  • A gendarme helicopter takes off near the site of a jet crash near Pluvigner, western France, Thursday, Sept.19, 2019. A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught, according to French authorities. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
  • FILE - In this Wednesday, May 18, 2016 file photo, a Belgian F16 fighter jet flies over Florennes Military Airbase, in Florennes, Belgium. A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019 on a road in western France and one of its pilots is hanging from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught, according to French authorities. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)
  • A rescue vehicle, partially hidden, parks near the site of a jet crash near Pluvigner, western France, Thursday, Sept.19, 2019. A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught, according to French authorities. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

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