Blue Angels Jet Plane Crash – Tennessee – Video

 

An F/A-18 Hornet with the Navy’s elite demonstration squadron crashed shortly after take-off Thursday.

A U.S. official told the Associated Press that the pilot was Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. According to his official Blue Angels biography, Kuss joined the elite acrobatics team in 2014 and accumulated more than 1,400 flight hours.

The jet crashed at 3:01 p.m. in Smyrna, Tennessee, according to AIRFOR spokeswoman Cmdr. Jeannie Groeneveld.