Tina Knapp had just settled into her chair after washing dishes in her northern Michigan home last month when a thunderous boom! startled her back to her feet.

The whole house shook. The lights and the windows everything shook, she said.

She hurried to the front door as two more booms rumbled above her house in her front yard.

She imagined two large semi-trucks mightve collided in her neighborhood, but when she opened the door, she couldnt believe her eyes.

A fighter jet had crashed right outside, in my front yard, basically, she said.

In a wetland area directly across the street from her house, she could see a bright orange fireball raging beneath a billowing cloud of black smoke.

Fortunately, everyones home was intact, but large pieces of an F16 military fighter jet were scattered everywhere.

The pilot, who ejected, was nowhere to be found.

Finding the pilot

Several blocks away, Benjamin Vyverberg had been building a home on his property when he heard a startling noise and looked to the sky.

I see a parachute come up and then the guy goes down, he said. I can barely see the plane.

Vyverberg immediately called 911 to report the incident and then ran through a field and some woods to try to find the pilot.

I was a little scared, said Vyverberg. I was like, Who is this? Where is this person from?

Eventually, he spotted the massive orange parachute and the injured aviator, lying face down on pine needles and dirt.

I was like, Are you ok? said Vyverberg. (The pilot) mustve said five, six, seven times, was anybody hurt? Did I hit any houses?

Vyverberg helped lead first responders to his location.

The footage

Scripps News was first to obtain body-worn camera footage showing first responders providing medical care to the pilot after he ejected.

In the videos, the pilot, whose name has not been publicly released, remained still and calm as medics cut off his uniform and rolled him onto a backboard before transporting him to the hospital in an ambulance.

The military has not provided any updates on the mans condition other than to say he was safe after the crash.

According to a military spokesperson, the pilot was flying a Texas Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 149th Fighter Wing during a training mission when the aircraft started to fail.

The flight originated at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpena, MI.

While the military has not confirmed what caused the crash, body-worn camera footage captured the pilot saying, I lost my engine.

The pilot told one first responder that he attempted to prevent a larger disaster by trying to avoid power lines and homes.

Although she was briefly displaced from her home Tina Knapp is thankful her house was not struck.

We would love to be able to personally tell him and his family thank you, Knapp told Scripps News of the pilot. He risked everything of his, to save ours, said Knapp.

Theres never going to be enough thanks, she said. All glory to God. Thank you. We dont even know his name.

Scripps News obtained the footage as part of an ongoing investigative series, The Aftermath, examining non-combat military aviation accidents, which the military calls mishaps.

The investigation found the number of the most serious mishaps in the recently concluded 2026 fiscal year surpassed the number of such incidents in the prior fiscal year across the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force.

The Department of Defense announced a task force earlier this year seeking to identify the root causes of aviation mishaps, but none of the task forces findings have been made public.

The Aftermath investigation will continue with more details about this and other recent crashes in the weeks and months ahead.

Witnesses told police a 42-year-old Atlanta man was ejected from a Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia Monday before falling to his death.

The Cobb County Police Department said Hassan Kariem was thrown from his seat on the Goliath roller coaster and struck other patrons at Six Flags Over Georgia just before 4 p.m. on Monday.

Neither theme park officials nor law enforcement provided details about how Kariem came out of his seat, or the extent of the injuries suffered by the other riders who were hurt.

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Six Flags officials said they would be temporarily closing the Goliath coaster in Georgia and several other similar rides at other theme parks out of an abundance of caution. Those rides and parks are:

Six Flags Great America Raging Bull Six Flags Magic Mountain Goliath Six Flags Great Adventure Nitro Canada's Wonderland Leviathan and Behemoth Carowinds Fury 325 and Thunder Striker Kings Island Orion and Diamondback.

We were deeply saddened by the guest incident at one of our parks yesterday. Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with the guests family, friends, and loved ones. We are also providing support to the guests and team members affected, a Six Flags spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday. The park team and local authorities responded immediately, and we cooperated fully with local authorities. Out of respect for the familys privacy, we will not be sharing additional details at this time.

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Atlanta Public Schools confirmed Kariem worked for their district at Wesley International Academy. The school said in a statement he was deeply loved and respected, adding:

"The Wesley International Academy community is devastated by the loss of Hassan Kariem, affectionately known as Mr. Kariem, who was a beloved colleague, friend, and integral part of the Wesley family for more than 12 years.

Throughout his time at Wesley, Mr. Kariem served as our IT Manager, a technology teacher, and a robotics coach, leaving a lasting impact on generations of students and colleagues. His love for Wesley, dedication to our students, and commitment to our school community were evident in everything he did."

Kariems death happened about two weeks after Six Flags permanently closed a California roller coaster at the center of numerous lawsuits alleging multiple riders suffered brain injuries.

The theme park chain recently announced it was retiring the Magic Mountain coaster X2 after more than 20 years in operation, while noting that it had consistently passed a multitude of safety tests.

Ride safety is a cornerstone of our business, and when we see guest confidence affected, we take it seriously, said Brian Oerding, the president of Six Flags Magic Mountain Park, when announcing X2s retirement last month.

California attorney Gary Dordick is representing more than 100 people who say they were injured after riding Six Flags rides, including X2. He said Mondays incident, and the injuries suffered by his clients, indicate a systemic problem.

There's insufficient regulation. There's insufficient standards for the operation of these kinds of roller coasters, Dordick said. And then you combine that with this idea that over the past many years, they want these roller coasters to go faster and higher and twist more, and they become more dangerous.

In its comments Tuesday, Six Flags said, The safety of our guests and team members is our highest priority.

Dordick said the fatal incident in Georgia makes it clear it is time for change.

This is just amusement. These are families that pay a fee to go have some fun with their kids and their friends. There shouldnt be a risk of serious injury and death, he said.

The New York prosecutor who declined to file criminal sex assault charges against Cornell university fraternity members in 2024 said he is investigating whether a transcript of the accuser's initial interview with campus police exists. He says he learned of a potential transcript through a CBS reporter who reported that the accuser had told police she believed she was raped with 100% confidence.

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CBS New York was first to report the existence of the transcript, and Scripps News has not independently obtained or reviewed it.

The reported comments by the alleged victim identified in court paperwork only as Jane Doe differ from the way Tompkins County district attorney Matthew Van Houten described the womans initial account of the 2024 encounter.

The prosecutor said he did not file criminal charges in the case in 2024 because Jane Does written police statement did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped. On the contrary, Jane Does statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual."

Van Houten told Scripps News Wednesday morning he first learned of a police interview transcript from the CBS reporter on Tuesday.

That statement (about the accuser being certain she was raped) was not in the 6-page statement from Jane Doe, Van Houten said Wednesday morning. I do not have the transcript but if it exists I will obtain it.

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A Cornell University spokesperson told Scripps News that campus police shared a lengthy police investigation report with the DAs office in 2024, but they would not specify whether a transcript was part of that report.

The criminal case was reopened this month, several days after Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against the university, the fraternity, and fraternity members, among other defendants, alleging she was sexually assaulted.

In the lawsuit, the student said she was the victim of criminal sex acts at the hands of seven fraternity members at the Chi Phi National Xi Chapters fraternity house on Cornells campus in October of 2024 after drinking so much she was incapable of consenting.

The lawsuit also alleged one of the men posted in a Snapchat group of fraternity members that there was free p---- upstairs, and that some of the men pressured the already-intoxicated student into using ketamine.

The district attorney said this week he plans to present the renewed case to a grand jury.

I recognize the reality that it can take years of therapy and healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process and understand what happened to them. Seeking justice sometimes requires us to reconsider or reopen cases when we are provided with additional evidence, Van Houten said Monday. The Grand Jury will be able to consider the testimony of Jane Doe as well as any new evidence raised by the allegations of the civil complaint.

Expert: New York legal loophole could make prosecution challenging

Jane Does lawsuit says that when she arrived at the fraternity house she was visibly intoxicated" and had "consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours.

Seth Zuckerman, a former New York prosecutor and founder of the Zuckerman Legal Group, told Scripps News the prosecutor is in a difficult position because of the way the states laws pertaining to consent are written.

In New York, the law is that victims are only mentally incapacitated if they were drugged or intoxicated without their knowledge of consent, Zuckerman said. We refer to this as the voluntary intoxication loophole.

It creates a legal hurdle for prosecutors when the victim is allegedly so heavily intoxicated that they cant give consent, but they voluntarily intoxicated themselves, Zuckerman said.

Cornell posts detailed FAQ to respond to mounting public questions about case

Cornell University posted a FAQ page this week to respond to questions and provide additional information and clarification about the case.

In it, the university detailed its process of investigating the 2024 allegations, provided some information about the disciplinary actions taken against the students involved in the incident, and laid out what it has done in the meantime to address the issue of sexual assault on campus.

We will continue to examine and strengthen our policies to ensure we are doing all we can to foster a culture where sexual misconduct is never tolerated, those who come forward are supported, and individuals found responsible through our processes are held accountable, the FAQ reads.