A vintage military plane on its way to an Air Force exercise in Washington state crashed Monday in Henderson, but the pilot survived with minor injuries and no one on the ground was injured, authorities said.
The BAC-167 Strikemaster jet crashed around noon, half a mile south of Volunteer Boulevard, shortly after taking off from the Henderson Executive Airport and caught fire, Clark County Department of Aviation spokeswoman Christine Crews said.
The Henderson Fire Department responded to the crash and quickly extinguished the flames. The pilot, the only person on the aircraft, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
He is “lucky to be alive,” Fire Department spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said.