The U.S. F-16 fighter jet took off from South Korea's Gunsan Air Base at around 9 a.m. on December 11 and soon fell into the Yellow Sea. The U.S. pilot managed to parachute and was said to have been rescued. Gunsan Air Base is located on the west coast of South Korea and is the second largest air base of the U.S. military stationed in South Korea. The US military said that the cause of the crash was unclear and that an accident investigation team would be set up to investigate the cause of the crash. This is the second plane that the US military has dropped in the 8th Wing of Gunsan this year, and the first one fell in Gyeonggi Province. 
This is also the fourth time that the U.S. military has lost planes in the past month: on November 13, the U.S. Black Hawk crashed in Mediterranean waters, killing 5 soldiers by the way;On 20 November, a U.S. Navy P-8A anti-submarine aircraft broke off the runway and fell into the Gulf of Hawaii. On November 28, another Osprey transport plane of the US military stationed in Japan crashed into the sea, taking eight soldiers with it. The Americans themselves are scared, especially the "widowmaker" V-22 Osprey fleet, which has taken more than 50 people since the first prototype flight in 1989;The U.S. announced on December 6 that it would quickly ground the mourning star. As a result, only a few days later, an F-16 fighter plane of the US military stationed in South Korea crashed again, and you can't stop the F16 fighter plane as well. It seems that the US military's equipment is seriously aging, and its maintenance ability is really miserable. 
At the same time, this gives negative advertising to the US military, which will affect the sales and reputation of the F16. I remember that Russia also encountered such a drama back then. After the Gulf War, China found that its fighter planes had been thrown out by other powers, so it decided to introduce a number of advanced fighters. It just so happened that at this time the northern neighbor changed in our favor: 1, in 1989, Sino-Soviet relations eased;2. The USSR was short of money. The point is the second, in order to make some extra money, the USSR put the fourth-generation fighter MiG-29 on the shelves. But before that, we found out that the Soviet Union had a mysterious fighter called "Blue Lightning", which was said to be very powerful. After many investigations, it was learned that this blue lightning of the Soviet Union was the Su-27. But the USSR only wanted to sell the MiG-29. 
MiG-29) On September 17, 1990, at the Kubinka airbase, the Soviet Union conducted a test flight performance on the spot in order to sell the MiG-29 to ChinaUnexpectedly, a MiG-29 suddenly crashed while doing low-altitude aerobatics, and the plane was destroyed and people died. The Chinese side was stunned by the Soviets' manipulation. In this fall, the Chinese side resolutely does not want the MiG-29, and buys the Su-27 if it wants to buy it. In addition, at this time, the Soviet Union was really short of money and could not digest much of the Su-27 itself, and the Sukhoi Design Bureau also put pressure on the top in order to survive. The Soviet Union hesitated and finally decided to sell a batch of Su-27s to China. Critically, ** is not expensive either. For the first batch of 24 Su-27s, China paid only 30% of the contract in cash, and the remaining 70% was exchanged for cargo. This product is our heavenly amount of flashlights, canned food, and socks. And 10,000 dog fur coats. In order to gather 10,000 dog fur coats, it is said that the dogs in Shandong, Henan, and Anhui provinces were about to be defeated. In fact, the Su-27SK purchased by China has relatively backward electronic equipment, but it finally has fighters of the same era as major countries, so it will not be casually attacked by third- and fourth-rate countries. So in the nineties, the Su-27 became the baby bump of the national air force, and there was such a joke at that time: if you want to win, you need two wives (27). 
Su-27) So the repeated crashes of the F16 fighter are not good news for the US industry.