A US Air Force pilot safely escaped after an F-35 fighter jet crashed during a training mission at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday, officials said.

A United States Air Force pilot has been hospitalized after ejecting from an F-35 fighter jet that crashed at the Eielson Air Force Base, about 25 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, the air base announced on Tuesday. The F-35 Lightning II aircraft crashed at 12:49 p.m. Alaskan time into the fence line of the base.

A F-35 fighter jet was destroyed after it went up in flames following a crash at a US airbase. Footage shows when the military jet fell from the sky during a routine exercise at the Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. The pilot managed to escape just moments before the jet began spiralling down yesterday afternoon.