By Canadian Press

Fighter pilot pleads guilty after wingman dies in crash

Jan 23, 2019 | 7:05 AM

A fighter jet pilot has pleaded guilty and been fined two-thousand dollars for flying his C-F-18 too low during a training mission in which his wingman died in a crash.

Captain Christopher Mileusnic was the leader of a two-aircraft formation that was practising bomb drops on targets near the Cold Lake weapons range in Alberta on November 28th, 2016.

The agreed statement of facts presented at his court martial says Mileusnic’s heads-up-display was flickering, not showing consistent altitude information as flight rules require.

Despite the problem, he continued making bomb runs with his wingman — and as Captain Thomas McQueen was doing the last target run, he inadvertently flew into terrain and died instantly.