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Fighter jet crashes in Finland, pilot ejects to safety
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Posted on May 7, 2025
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A Finnish Air Force F/A-18 Hornet crashed near Rovaniemi airport. The pilot ejected safely and was hospitalized. No ground injuries reported.
HELSINKI (Reuters) -A fighter jet belonging to the Finnish Air Force crashed near an airport in northern Finland on Wednesday, the country's military said, adding that the pilot had ejected from the aircraft and was taken to hospital.
Smoke was seen rising from the general direction of where the aircraft went down and there was a strong smell of smoke in the air, public broadcaster Yle reported. The area was cordoned off by local police.
"An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet plunged to the ground in the Rovaniemi airport area," the Air Force said in a statement.
It later added that the pilot had been taken to a medical facility to be examined and that no one had been injured on the ground.
The Rovaniemi airport remained open, its operator separately said.
Finland has 62 Hornet fighter jets bought between 1992 and 2000. The Nordic country in 2021 decided to replace them with Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters.
(Reporting by Essi Lehto, editing by Terje Solsvik and Toby Chopra)
The main topic is the crash of a Finnish Air Force F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet near Rovaniemi airport, with the pilot ejecting safely.
The pilot ejected safely from the aircraft and was taken to a hospital for examination.
No injuries were reported on the ground following the crash.
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