Cascading Power Outages Caused 2023 F-16 Crash, Probe Shows

Surveillance shows an F-16 shortly before crashing on May 6, 2023, in South Korea.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
A U.S. Air Force F-16C crashed shortly after takeoff in South Korea in 2023 after power outages caused a series of failures to instruments in the aircraft’s cockpit, prompting the pilot to eject, an investigation has found. The May 6, 2023, crash of the F-16C took place at Osan Air Base amid the...

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