E/A18 crash at airshow Mountain Home AFB

Watching the longer whole video, it appears dash-2 got high and lost sight of lead under the nose, impacting the lead jet while fishing around to find them. With two sets of eyes in each jet, kind of difficult to understand how, unless there was some kind of important distraction, which I can’t see what there would be. If there was something important enough that needed attention, then break out of formation to do so. Be curious how the lost sight happened.
 
Looked like the two jets physically got stuck together all the way to the ground, if that’s not an optical illusion. Incredibly lucky that the canopies weren’t on top of each other and all four got out, and nobody collided during ejection. I’m also hoping our former (or still in reserves?) resident Growler jammer is ok.
 
Looked like the two jets physically got stuck together all the way to the ground, if that’s not an optical illusion. Incredibly lucky that the canopies weren’t on top of each other and all four got out, and nobody collided during ejection. I’m also hoping our former (or still in reserves?) resident Growler jammer is ok.

Were active duty birds from the RAG training squadron, i believe. He’s a reservist.
 
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