Update - Deadly Crash at Blue Angels Air Show

The Blue Angels team leader circles the site where a Navy F-18 Blue Angel plane crashed during an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in Beaufort, S.C., Saturday, April 21, 2007. The Beaufort Gazette reported the plane hit a pine tree and then crashed near a subdivision, setting at least one home on fire and peppering homes with shrapnel. The county coroner's office said one person was killed.

Smoke rises over the treetops after a Navy Blue Angel solo pilot flying an F-18 crashed during an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in Beaufort, S.C., Saturday, April 21, 2007.

Update: Blue Angel crashes; pilot killed; eyewitness reports home caught fire
Press conference at 8 p.m.
Witness: ‘It fell straight out of the air”
(beaufortgazette.com) -- A Blue Angel pilot crashed Saturday afternoon while performing at an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

1 dead after Blue Angels jet crashes during air show
(CNN) -- At least one person is dead after a jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed into a Beaufort, South Carolina, neighborhood, causing an "enormous fireball" during an air show, authorities said.

Report: Blue Angels plane crashes in show
BEAUFORT, S.C., April 21 (UPI) -- A jet with the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels precision flight team crashed during an air show Saturday in South Carolina.

At least 1 person killed in Blue Angels crash in S.C.
(pnj.com) -- A Blue Angels F/A-18 jet crashed Saturday afternoon while performing at an air show at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

Reports indicate that it was Blue Angel No. 6 that went down and plane No. 1 circled the Air Station, possibly looking for the pilot. Later, officials at the crash site called for the coroner.

More from: The Associated Press; Reuters; MSNBC.

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