COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Thunderbirds jet that crashed in Colorado Springs after flying over the Air Force Academy's commencement ceremony is being removed.
Helicopter video from KUSA-TV showed workers using a crane to lift the largely intact plane onto a flatbed truck on Tuesday.
The $25 million aircraft will be stored at a hangar on Peterson Air Force Base where investigators will carefully go over every part of it.
Maj. Alex Turner had just flown over the crowd watching President Barack Obama's commencement address Thursday afternoon when something went wrong and he was forced to ditch his plane. The jet skidded a few hundred yards across a grassy field, before coming to rest on its belly.
Turner parachuted safely and was not seriously injured and later met the president.
