By AP/KWMU
St. Louis – A jammed cable is being blamed for causing the crash of a Missouri Air National Guard F-15D during drills in Indiana in May.
An Air Force report released Monday says there was nothing the pilot could do except eject from the tumbling plane.
The faulty cable was supposed to transfer a pilot's flight control inputs to the aircraft.
The crash happened May 30 during maneuvers over a lightly-populated area near the Indiana-Illinois border.
Four F-15s from the Missouri Air National Guard's 131st Fighter Wing, based in St. Louis, flew maneuvers with four F-16 jets from the Indiana Air National Guard's 181st Fighter Wing.
The pilot was able to eject and had only minor injuries. No one on the ground was hurt. However the $44 million plane was destroyed.