The demonstration team flies with 360-degree cameras during training and airshows. When one crashed in December, it kept recording.

The December crash of one of the famed demonstration team's jets was the second time in less than two years that an F-16 pilot was forced to eject after a failure in an engine's mechanical "blind ...

An Air Force “Thunderbirds” jet that crashed during a training mission over California last year resulted in a complete loss of the aircraft.

An Air Force Thunderbird F-16 crashed in 2025, as did a training jet in 2024. Investigators traced both mishaps to an engine ...

The Air Force Thunderbirds canceled appearances at two more air shows after a pilot was killed during practice last week at the Nevada Test and Training Range. And more cancellations were possible, Lt ...

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 ...

UPDATE: The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will not fly in Saturday's Vectren Dayton Air Show, Lt. Col. Jason Heard announced this afternoon. Capt. Gonsalves is a "very experienced" pilot, according to ...

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UPDATE: The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will not fly in Saturday's Vectren Dayton Air Show, Lt. Col. Jason Heard announced this afternoon. The pilot of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds No. 8 plane that ...