(WXYZ) — The FAA and NTSB are investigating after a MiG 23 fighter jet crashed during the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show on Sunday afternoon.
The pilot and another person in the jet safely ejected over a lake, and the jet later crashed in a parking lot at the Waverly on the Lake Apartments in Van Buren Township.
No one on the ground was injured, and officials say the two people in the jet were taken to the hospital as a precaution but are expected to be OK.
According to the Air Show's website, the plane was piloted by Dan Filer, who is from Texas.
See chopper video of the aftermath from Monday morning below
Last year, KTBS, the ABC station based in Shreveport, Louisiana, profiled Filer as part of a "Hometown Patriot" segment.
According to KTBS, Filer collects Soviet-made fighter jets and is a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander.
"It's the only privately owned flying MiG 23 in the world," Filer told KTBS last year.
The TV station also reports that he has two other MiG fighter jets that he's restoring and a training jet.
What the NTSB said
The NTSB held a news conference on Monday afternoon, saying the pilots reported engine problems and a loss of power and they were not able to correct it, and they had to eject from the airplane.
It's not clear when the engine issues started, and officials say they are very early on in the investigation, and they have not spoken with the pilots directly.
Those officials say they are arranging to have a recovery crew come to the scene and get the airplane so they can do further examination off-site. The complexity of the fighter jet makes it hard to do an on-scene investigation.
The official said that the plane traveled for about 500 feet after it made an initial impact, and it's very fortunate no one on the ground was injured.
