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2 fighter jets collide midair at Idaho Air Force base air show 91%
5/18/2026, 11:58:32 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Optimism Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 66.5% saturation with 187 hits. Analysis detected 763 faulty-reasoning hits from 281 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.4% and a BS Rank of 91% (1,621 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 90.40% of the video peer group.
This is the moment two Navy jets collide at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base just outside of Boise, Idaho.
The jets crashing midair, seemingly sticking together.
Sparks and debris fly as the crew ejects just before the jets plunge to the ground.
You can see four parachutes deploy just before the aircraft crash, erupting in plumes of black smoke.
The four aviators descending near the crash as onlookers watch.
An announcer instructing the crowds.
There have been four good parachutes that we're seeing and we ask that everyone remain where you are.
I didn't think it was real at first.
It was just so surreal to me.
Ruben Villalpando was at the air show with his family when he witnessed the crash.
I saw the big flame of of fire from the ground and the smoke and once that happened, I knew they both had went down and I I just had hoped that the pilots had ejected.
A spokesperson for the Navy saying in a statement that all four of the air crew successfully ejected and they are being evaluated by medical personnel.
First responders are on the scene and that the incident is under investigation.
Later in an update, officials saying the air crew involved in the incident are in stable condition.
The investigation will look into mechanical trouble or whether one of the pilots suffered some sort of physiological issue or whether it was simply pilot error.
But of course, we are all very grateful that the air crew survived.
Robin?
>> We certainly are, Martha.
You're right about that.
Thank you.
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