JAS-39 Gripen fighter jet crashes, pilot ejects

Posted on: Apr. 19th, 2007 || Source: thelocal.se | E-mail Article | Print Article

A JAS Gripen fighter plane has crashed at Vidsel airport in Norrbotten in northern Sweden.

"We first got the alert from the tower in Vidsel at 3.42pm," Stefan Johansson from the Air Rescue Coordination Centre in Gothenburg told The Local.

"They heard a big bang and when they looked out they saw the pilot hanging there in his chute,"

Rescue and police helicopters were quickly sent to the scene.

"But when they arrived they found the pilot walking towards them," said Johansson.

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