Pilots OK after Navy jets collide over Nevada desert

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This photograph shows an Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet. It is not-to MyNews4.com editor’s knowledge-the aircraft mentioned in this article. Photograph courtesy Boeing.com.

The U.S. Navy says two fighter jets on a training mission collided over the northern Nevada desert, but both pilots survived.

The crash east of Fallon Naval Air Station happened around 10 p.m. Monday.

Navy officials say one pilot was able to land his F/A-18E Super Hornet at the base. The other pilot ejected safely before his jet crashed in a remote area of the base. He was picked up at 11:20 p.m. by the NAS Fallon "Longhorns" Search and Rescue team, which flew a SH-60F Seahawk helicopter to the site.

The rescue team took him to a hospital where he was treated and released.

Both jets are assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 137 based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.

-The Associated Press and MyNews4.com

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