A military aircraft crashed into a residential area in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 19, leaving at least two homes severely damaged and several people being treated for injuries, officials said. The Lake Worth Fire Department wrote on Twitter that the crash occurred during a military training exercise. The agency said that the plane, which wasn’t identified, went down around the 4000 blocks of Tejas Trail and Dakota Trail. Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian told WFAA-TV that homes in the area are being evacuated. About 1,300 customers in the neighborhood are without power, officials told the station. Witnesses told KXAS-5 that two people appeared to have ejected from the aircraft. One of them was seriously injured after getting tangled in power lines. “I was in my car on [State Highway] 199 right in front of the donut shop when the pilot landed on the powerlines,” Cara Camp said. …
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