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PLEASANT VIEW, Utah (AP) — Family and friends are mourning the death of a Utah man in a jet crash during a military training exercise near a California Navy base.
Funeral services will be held Saturday in North Ogden for Charles Rogers of Pleasant View.
The 45-year-old Rogers was a civilian pilot who was flying a civilian-owned fighter jet contracted by the Navy when it crashed Wednesday 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
The plane had just finished playing the role of an enemy aircraft and was preparing to land when the crash occurred.
Rogers' mother-in-law, Diane Little, told Ogden's Standard-Examiner that he relocated to Pleasant View after recently retiring from the Air Force because his wife, Tonya, grew up in the area.
He's also survived by four sons and a daughter.
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