io9 
Dec 8, 2008 3:00 PM
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Like a scary replay of a scene from Donnie Darko, an F-18 fighter jet on a training mission crashed in a suburb of the California city of San Diego this afternoon. Though two houses are on fire, so far there are no reports of anyone being injured except the pilot, who parachuted out of the jet after ejecting as the plane went down (UPDATE: BBC lists three dead). We've got video of the crash site below.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the jet "spiraling" before it landed.
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