A retired U.S. Air Force colonel says he’s grateful a pilot is alive after Saturday’s in-flight emergency for a Fresno-based fighter jet.
The F15 lost its canopy somewhere over the Sierra Nevada mountains after it took part in a flyover at the Clovis Rodeo.
The pilot was able to land safely at Fresno Yosemite International Airport without it, which is located right next to the California National Guard’s 144th Fighter Wing, from which the fighter jet was based…