I’m chasing this story about as fast as my little stumpy legs will carry me.

I’ve just spoken with the Eglin Air Force Base public affairs (5:22 p.m.) and have been told BOTH pilots have been found. As the crash involved F-15Cs, unless there was someone taped to a wing these are single seat aircraft, so everyone that was in the air has apparently made it back. I don’t know the condition but will post here and update the story online as soon as I know.

UPDATE 1 -

Some of the big news outlets are already reporting that this was a collision. There are only TWO PEOPLE who know whether or not those planes collided, and I don’t think either of those pilots were thinking to call CNN on the parachute ride down. If and when the Air Force announces that the planes collided I will make the appropriate update. But I am not going to leap to conclusions on this.

UPDATE 2 - One of the pilots  has died, the other is listed as in good condition.

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