Pilot Blacked Out During High-G Maneuver, Report Indicates
Air Combat Command has released an accident investigation board report regarding the F-16 Thunderbird accident which occurred April 4, 2018. Major Stephen Del Bagno, call sign "Cajun", an F-16CM pilot assigned to the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the “Thunderbirds,” was fatally injured when his airplane went down while engaged in a routine aerial demonstration training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) near Creech AFB, Nevada.