The aircraft involved in the incident was either a Su-34 Fullback or a Su-24 Fencer. The Russian Aerospace Forces lost a bomber crew after the aircraft’s ejection system was activated while the bomber ...

(Tribune News Service) — An Air Force major could be seen rocketing into the air after a state-of-the-art military jet smashed into a Fort Worth runway earlier this month. In a matter of seconds, a ...

The Air Force's new T-7A Red Hawk training jet was expected to be delivered to the service in 2023, but software issues and ejection seat concerns are causing delays in getting the aircraft to pilots.

The Air Force has grounded its fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters due to a problem with components of the ejector seats that could prevent the pilot from being able to eject safely during an ...

The US Air Force has taken out of service the majority of its Lockheed Martin F-35As due to a problem with the jets’ pilot ejection systems. For the same reason, it has also halted flights of ...

The Air Force is temporarily grounding nearly 300 trainer aircraft over concerns that their ejection seats may not fire correctly when needed, Air Force Times has learned. The service has stopped ...

AeroTime is reporting that on August 12, 2025, a ride-along passenger on an F-15D inadvertently activated the eject system while it was taxiing at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, ...

On March 30, 1968, Maj. Sandy Marquardt and Capt. Joe Hodges of the U.S. Air Force were forced to use the escape module of their swing-wing F-111 Aardvark strike jet. The F-111A, which had yet to ...

Officials look over the F-35B military aircraft wreckage, including the parachute (right) along the runway at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, December 15, 2022. The pilot ...