[2012.201.B0051.0094]

Officials stand in the smoky ruins skeleton of a F-105D jet fighter. The plane's skeleton sits in a snowy field shortly after takeoff from Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Officials check the scorched skeleton of a F-105D jet fighter that exploded into flames and crashed shortly after take-off from Tinker Air Force Base Thursday night. The pilot, Capt. David Bartell, an Air Force Reserve member from Enid, ejected from the burning jet only seconds before it plowed into the ground. He received only minor injuries.