Blue Angel crash in Tennessee

Nashville TV station WKRN is reporting a U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed this afternoon in Smyrna, Tenn. during a practice run. The La Vergne fire chief confirmed the accident happened around 3 p.m. LifeFlight helicopters from Vanderbilt University Medical Center were called to the scene.

The Tennessean reports “a fireball and thick black plume of smoke could be seen just beyond the runway at Smyrna Airport and from Interstate 24.”

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Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”