{"id":13937791,"date":"2026-08-19T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/marine-fa-18-pilot-bodycam-crash-footage-rimrock-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:22:48","slug":"marine-fa-18-pilot-bodycam-crash-footage-rimrock-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/marine-fa-18-pilot-bodycam-crash-footage-rimrock-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hey, Buddy, I Just Crashed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>A Marine walks out of the woods with a bloodied face and a phone in his hand, 911 already dialled. A county deputy, not quite sure what he is looking at, asks the obvious question: what kind of jet is that? The pilot glances back toward the column of black smoke on the mountainside and answers with the understatement of the year.<\/p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s an F-18,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Well &mdash; that <em>era<\/em> an F-18.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n<p>That exchange, caught on a Yakima County sheriff&rsquo;s body camera and released on 14 August 2026, is the extraordinary human coda to a crash that happened two months earlier &mdash; and the pilot&rsquo;s calm is the most remarkable thing in it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:6px\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Datos r\u00e1pidos<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Aeronave:<\/strong> U.S. Marine Corps F\/A-18 Hornet<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Chocar:<\/strong> 13 June 2026, into a mountainside near Rimrock Lake, Washington (~55 miles SE of Seattle)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Piloto:<\/strong> assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Miramar, California<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Lesiones:<\/strong> minor facial lacerations; the pilot ejected before impact<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Secuelas:<\/strong> the wreck sparked a wildfire on the mountainside<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Footage:<\/strong> body-camera video released by the Yakima County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office on 14 August 2026<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">&ldquo;We Were Doing Circles Over the Lake&rdquo;<\/h2>\r\n<p>El <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/es\/aeronave\/avispon-fa-18\/\">F\/A-18 Hornet<\/a> went down on 13 June, slamming into high ground near Rimrock Lake during a low-level training sortie and throwing up a plume of black smoke that started a fire on the slope. The pilot ejected shortly before impact, came down under his parachute &mdash; later seen snagged in a tree &mdash; and walked out to find help.<\/p>\r\n<p>On the bodycam, he is shaken but lucid, explaining what little he knows: &ldquo;We were doing circles over the lake, doing some low-level training. And then I tucked in, and I&rsquo;m not sure exactly. Honestly, I&rsquo;m a little frazzled.&rdquo; A bystander, taking in the smoke and the blood, offers the kind of feedback only a stranger can: &ldquo;You hit the tree bad, bud.&rdquo;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lw0gJ_O4jt8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px;font-style:italic\">The Yakima County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office bodycam footage of the pilot after the crash.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">&ldquo;Hey, Buddy, I Just Crashed&rdquo;<\/h2>\r\n<p>The moment that has stuck with everyone who has watched the clip comes when the pilot phones someone in his squadron to break the news. No panic, no drama &mdash; just four flat words: &ldquo;Hey, buddy, I just crashed.&rdquo; It is the sort of line a fighter pilot&rsquo;s training is supposed to produce: eject, survive, communicate, stay calm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Hey, buddy, I just crashed.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>The F\/A-18 pilot<\/strong> &mdash; on the phone to his squadron, moments after ejecting<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=2049631639  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/us-marines-fa-18-hornet-landing.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Marines operate an F\/A-18 Hornet\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A U.S. Marine Corps F\/A-18 Hornet. The type has served the Marines since the 1980s. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">\u00bfQu\u00e9 sucede despu\u00e9s?<\/h2>\r\n<p>The pilot walked away with minor cuts to his face &mdash; a reminder that a working ejection seat is one of the great life-savers in military aviation. The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing described the accident as a &ldquo;non-fatal aviation mishap&rdquo;, and the cause is still under investigation. What the aging Marine Hornet fleet does not have is time on its side; the type is being steadily replaced by the F-35.<\/p>\r\n<p>For now, the lasting image is a bloodied Marine on a rural road, phone in hand, telling a friend he just wrote off a fighter jet &mdash; and sounding, all things considered, remarkably okay about it.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:24px\">Sources: ABC News; Yakima County Sheriff&rsquo;s Office; Military Times; Task &amp; Purpose; 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/marine-fa18d-hornet-crash-rimrock-lake-washington-pine-tree-fire\/\">Avi\u00f3n de la Infanter\u00eda de Marina se estrella y provoca un incendio forestal.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/finland-f-35a-hornet-phase-out-lapland-2026\/\">Finland's Hornets Begin Their Final Countdown<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Marine walks out of the woods with a bloodied face and a phone in his hand, 911 already dialled. A county deputy, not quite sure what he is looking at, asks the obvious question: what kind of jet is that? 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