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terrifying crash. a fighter jet slammed into a virginia beach apartment complex today and now the navy is blaming a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. thanks for joining us tonight. i m laura evans. i m brian bolter. the two pilots ejected from the fa-18 hornet just before it crashed. several people were hospital but so far no deaths. fox 5 s karen gray houston with the latest. the latest was in we have is that there are no reports of anyone missing. a virginia fire captain says 40 apartment units were damaged. officials are trying to find shelter for those who need it. six of the seven people injured have been released from the hospital and the two pilots are an instructor and his student. eyewitnesses say they heard several small explosions and moments after the plane crashed there was a huge plume of black smoke and the smell of jet fuel. it just looked basically like he dropped out of the sky pretty much. the front end of the plane started going down and then boom
smoke. and then we had to get a bunk of neighbors together to 56 them up and take them to safety. you were listening to, the pilot appeared to number shock and was strapped to the seat. an official with fleet forces command in virginia beach said all of the known injured are expected to survive. laura. unbelievable, karen agree houston. thank you. this happened in a residential area with plenty of witnesses. we re joined on the phone by a retired firefighter. thanks for being with us. you videotaped the jet on the ground as we show you a video. i want to you tell us what you saw? reporter: was about a half mile away when i saw the black smoke rising. i jumped in my vehicle and over there and on scene in six minutes and started rolling footage. i started doing a walk around and got the fa-18 in the court yard there, i guess you so, and then the firefighters of the trucks and other resources were arriving. i was capturing to that and you could see the fuel burning out of
to get pets. reporter: one eyewitness said that he saw smoke coming from the back of the jet before it crashed. we re still waiting to hear from the navy about exactly what caused that fighter jet to go down. we will continue to work this breaking news story and bring you any updates when we get them throughout the 90 minutes of news. really unbelievable that no one was killed in that crash. thank you, karen gray houston. the story you will see first on fox 5. a virginia man is suing the prince georges county department of corrections after he was locked up for more than four months under another man s name. it was a mistake that went uncorrected despite numerous pleas for help and two orders from a circuit court j. he lost everything while wrongly incarcerated and now, he said he wants an apology. paul wagner is no here with the story. paul? reporter: parker spent more than 127 days in jail trying to convince anyone who would lissen that he was not michael jerome lew