Cascading Power Outages Caused 2023 F-16 Crash, Probe Shows

Brian Everstine May 16, 2024

Surveillance shows an F-16 shortly before crashing on May 6, 2023, in South Korea.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
A U.S. Air Force F-16C crashed shortly after takeoff in South Korea in 2023 after power outages caused a series of failures to instruments in the aircraft’s cockpit, prompting the pilot to eject, an investigation has found. The May 6, 2023, crash of the F-16C took place at Osan Air Base amid the...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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