The Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration team is confronting a rare but serious mishap after one of its F-16C Fighting Falcon jets went down in the California desert during a training mission, ...

Shocking social media video captured the moment an F-16 Thunderbird crashed in the desert in Southern California on Wednesday. X video shows a giant plume of smoke erupting from the crash, which ...

It was the first deadly crash for the Thunderbirds since four pilots were killed in a crash at the Nevada Test and Training Range in 1982. Del Bagno’s death also marks the first time the team has been ...