An Oklahoma Air Natꦏional Guard pilot managed to eject safely from an F-16 fighter jet before it crashed on Wednesday into a wooded area in southwest Louisiana, the Guard said in a statement. There were no reports of injuries on the ground after the cra♍sh, and the pilot suffered no severe injury, the statement said.
The🍌 pilot's family identified him as Maj. Alexander Drummond, mission commander of the Tulsa-based 138th Fighter Wing of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. Drummond is the son of Gentner Drummond, a Tulsa attorney and a Republican candidate for Oklahoma attorney general.
“As a parent, the first thing I wanted to know when I received the news of the crash was, of꧙ course – is he OK?" Gentner Drummond said in a statement. “I'm relieved to know th💎at Alexander is alive, receiving outstanding medical care and is expected to make a full recovery."
The pilot and aircraft were on a routine training mission out of Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, the Guard said. The ca꧙use of the crash r𝕴emains under investigation.
With PTI inputs.
