A contractor operator ex-military Dassault Mirage F1M, call sign Sniper 01, went down in the backyard of a home in N. Christy Lane on approach to Nellis AFB (LSV/KLSV), Las Vegas, Nevada....
Nellis Air Force Base has confirmed the pilot killed Monday afternoon worked for Draken US, the contracted company that provides adversary air support for the installation.
The Mirage is equipped with zero/zero ejection seat. What went wrong, or did the pilot choose to stay with the jet in order to steer it into a better crash zone?
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- The sole occupant of a military jet died when the aircraft crashed in a residential neighborhood near Nellis Air Force Base on Monday.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) – A pilot is dead after a contractor-operated aircraft supporting Nellis Air Force Base crashed in the northeast Las Vegas valley Monday afternoon, according to the contracting company. The crash was reported in the area of Carey Avenue and Christy Lane, just east of Nellis...
The Clark County coroner's office has identified the pilot who was killed Monday in an aircraft crash near Nellis Air Force Base.
Las Vegas resident Nicholas Hunter Hamilton, 43, was the man who lost his life in a contractor-operated aircraft crash that went down after 2:30 p.m. near Cheyenne Avenue and Nellis Boulevard.