A pilot ejected following the crash of a Lockheed F-35B Lightning II jet on a Texas runway Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police responded at approximately 10:15 a.m. to emergency calls from both Naval police and Lockheed Martin saying that a fighter jet had crashed<\/a> at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth and that the pilot had ejected, White Settlement, Texas, police chief Chris Cook said in a video shot by a local Fox affiliate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen we arrived, we were pleased that we didn\u2019t see a big plume of smoke, nothing like that, so we felt like, \u2018OK, thoughts and prayers with the pilot, maybe they\u2019re going to be fine,\u2019\u201d Cook said in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The crash occurred during a test flight, Fox 4 reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Footage posted to Twitter by a reporter for a local CBS affiliate shows the jet descend vertically, bounce once on the runway and then go nose-down. In the video, the pilot appears to eject shortly after the landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n