A US military training aircraft crashed in a residential area near Dallas, Texas.

The instructor and his student were injured in the accident.

The two occupants were able to escape from the plane on Sunday (local time) using an ejector seat, as the authorities in the small town of Lake Worth announced in a press conference.

A pilot's parachute got tangled in a power line.

According to initial findings, people in the residential area of ​​Lake Worth were not injured in the accident.

According to the authorities, the plane crashed mostly in the backyards of three houses.

A huge cloud of smoke could be seen in pictures.

"The plane was in the yard and started to burn," said a local resident of a regional TV station.

The plane was a T-45 Goshawk.

The cause of the accident was still unclear.