Crash jet records call

A senior US congressman has called on the US Marine Corps to release the maintenance records of all fighter jets of the type that lost power and crashed into a San Diego, California, neighbourhood, killing four members of a Korean family.

San Diego Republican Duncan Hunter, a member of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, said the fireball crash on Monday of the F-18 Hornet fighter as it approached Marine Corps Air Station Miramar was apparently caused by power failure.