but the naval air station is roughly, you can see it here on your map. where mayfair mews. then the yellow line under that is the virginia beach expressway, 264. then a little lower down on the left-hand side, you can see naval air station oceana. so again, you can see all of the development. all of the businesses, all of the roadways leading in and out of the ocean front there in virginia beach. if i still have you on the phone, you said your son was the person who called you. where was he in this general vicinity? he was at a driving range not too far away. he saw the planes fly over and then saw the crash [ inaudible ]. we re getting a close-up now of the development there. it looks like it is a mixed
training that they go through? certainly our air crew are well trained in emergency procedures for a wide range of issues. but in this case again, it is hard to say what the causal factors were so we won t really want to speculate on that. again, the two pilots within this jet were able to eject, as i understand it. one was taken to the hospital for precaution. to get checked out. commander phil rosi, thanks for joining me. just to update you if you are joining us, an f-18 jet went down in virginia beach just after takeoff from naval air station oceana. this happening about two hours ago. officials saying it slammed into this apartment complex, the mayfair mews. you can see there are fire crews on the scene making sure there are no remaining embers going. we have no official information about any rescues from inside
goes from time to time in a circular pattern around the base in oceana. i don t know which operation they were engaged in at the time of the crash but everybody that lives around the jet base knows there s noise, frequent air traffic, and for most, you re right. it becomes part of the culture of your life and the sound of freedom that you just understand is part of the price of having an incredibly well trained, patriotic military. we re still going to wait on details coming to us from the ground about what took place there at the mayfair mews. governor box mcdonnell, thank you. we appreciate it. thank you. and our thoughts and prayers are certainly with those people that are there now and i think all the resources are being brought to bear to bring this to as safe a conclusion as possible. i appreciate being on with you. coming up, a military board rules a marine sergeant should be discharged for posting
now he makes shocking remarks about asian-owned businesses. wolf blitzer is off. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com breaking news, a horrifying scene in a crowded apartment complex in virginia beach as a navy jet crashes into buildings there, shooting flames and thick, black smoke into the sky. the crew members ejected and were taken to the hospital. now an urgent effort to account for all of the people on the ground. our brian todd has the very latest details. brian, what do we know? joe, the very latest from fire and rescue officials in virginia beach, we know that at least six people have been injured. that includes the two crew members, four others on the ground injured and taken to local hospitals and at least one of them is a policeman treated for smoke inhalation. these injuries not believed to be life-threatening. i ll show you some of the pictures and the horrific-looking pictures and we ll talk location. you see so
virginia beach of atlantic. which travels north and south. going east and west in and out of the beach is the virginia beach express way. this area is north of 264. an apartment complex called mayfair mews. we don t have any information or fatalities about inside the apartment complex for sure. we know the two pilots were able to safely eject and land on the ground. the parachutes, people watched them parachute to the ground. i believe one of the pilots was taken to the hospital for routine measures. again, the aircraft crashing directly after takeoff. now, naval air station on oceana is just below where this happened. if we can get that map back up to show everybody where naval air station oceana is. it will be just below where this happened. and it is an interior position for the air station itself. and it is a highly populated dense area of virginia beach.