Crews Search For Child In Home Destroyed By Fighter Jet

UPDATE 12/09/08
Child's body found in home hit by F/A-18
The body of a fourth person -- a child -- has been found in a San Diego home that was destroyed Monday when a Marine Corps fighter jet crashed into it, the San Diego County medical examiner's office said Tuesday. Authorities described as disabled when. "It was quiet; I think the engine was off," said San Diego resident Ian Lerner. It "just spiraled, right out of [the movie] 'Top Gun.' " full story


December 9th, 2008
Man who lost family says he does not blame pilot
Posted: 08:59 PM ET
(CNN) — A Korean immigrant who lost his wife, two small children and mother-in-law when a Marine Corps jet slammed into the family’s house in San Diego, California, said Tuesday he did not blame the jet’s pilot, who ejected before the crash and survived.

“Please pray for him not to suffer from this accident,” a distraught Dong Yun Yoon told reporters gathered near the site of Monday’s crash of a a F/A-18 Hornet in a residential area of San Diego’s University City community.

“He is one of our treasures for the country,” Yoon said in accented English punctuated by long pauses while he tried to maintain his composure.

Crews Search For Child In Home Destroyed By Fighter Jet

POSTED: 4:33 pm PST December 8, 2008

Authorities resumed searching for a missing child at Tuesday in the rubble of a University City home destroyed by an apparently disabled Marine Corps jet fighter that crashed and burst into flames, killing at least three people.

The bodies of a woman, her child and the child's grandmother were found in the home's ruins Monday after the F/A-18D Hornet plunged to the ground around noon near Cather Avenue and Huggins Street, about a mile northwest of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, said Maurice Luque, a spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
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