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F-16 pilot killed in U.P. crash was decorated National Guard pilot from New Mexico The pilot who perished on Tuesday night in a F-16 crash in a national forest in the Upper Penisula has been identified, according to the Facebook page of the 115th Fighter Wing in Wisconsin. Capt. Durwood “Hawk” Jones, 37, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was at the helm of the F-16 fighter jet when it crashed about 8 p.m. Dec. 8th in the Hiawatha National Forest. The plane was assigned to the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing. Jones joined the Air National Guard in 2011 and graduated from F-16 basic qualification training in 2015 and is a decorated combat veteran, deploying as a part of a United States Pacific Command Theater Support Package to Japan in 2015 and to Korea in 2017, according to the Facebook post.

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