Little Egg Harbor, N.J.
A military fighter jet accidentally strafed a New Jersey school during a nighttime training mission last week, blasting two dozen holes in the school’s roof and parking lot. There were no students around, and no one was injured. Military spokesmen said the F-16’s guns fired by accident, either due to a mechanical malfunction or pilot error. The jet was part of an Air National Guard squadron, based in Washington, D.C., that regularly trains at the Warren Grove Gunnery Range, a 2,400-acre training ground 3.5 miles from Little Egg Harbor Intermediate School. “The key is, it was inadvertent,” said Lt. John O’Brien of the Little Egg Harbor Township police. “It was not directed at the school.”
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