F16 experienced rapid unplanned lithobraking after a high altitude exothermic situation related to a kinetic object propelled by rapid oxidation reaction.
Some Russian media sources are claiming that it was destroyed by an Iskander strike and the pilot killed in the same or a similar hit. May or may not have been on the ground at a targeted airfield and Ukraine didn't want their first loss to be some guy dying on the ground and his plane getting knocked out without even getting in the air.
“Crashes”
to be fair they didn't specify what caused it to crash :)
F16 experienced rapid unplanned lithobraking after a high altitude exothermic situation related to a kinetic object propelled by rapid oxidation reaction.
Some Russian media sources are claiming that it was destroyed by an Iskander strike and the pilot killed in the same or a similar hit. May or may not have been on the ground at a targeted airfield and Ukraine didn't want their first loss to be some guy dying on the ground and his plane getting knocked out without even getting in the air.
That said at this point it's just rumors.