An F-16 fighter crashes into a California warehouse and a pilot is ejected

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CA) – Authorities say an F-16 fighter plane crashed in a warehouse just outside the base of the March Air Reserve, in the south from California.

Commander Perry Covington, director of public affairs at the base, said that the pilot had been ejected before the accident Thursday and that he had not been injured.

Television news shows a big hole in the roof of the building east of Los Angeles. Covington says that there are no casualties on the ground.

Officials say the plane is assigned to the Air National Guard.

Interstate 215, which runs near the base, is closed in both directions.

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