Posted on 03/14/2008 4:19:56 PM PDT by RDTF
PHOENIX The military says an F-16 flying out of Arizona's Luke Air Force Base has crashed northwest of Phoenix.
Base spokeswoman Mary Jo May says the aircraft went down around noon Friday.
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AF jet jocks will know that Luke AFB near Phoenix is where most F-16 training is based. Foreign buyers of F-16s also send their folks to Luke to train.
Warthog wannabes learn their trade out of Davis-Montham AFB in Tucson.
Prayers for the pilot’s safety.
F16 FROM 62FS (LUKE AFB) CRASHED TODAY (14march2008 12:00pm)
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-10104.html
Prayers up for the pilot.
Thanks for the ping.
Prayers up for the pilot and his family.
P.S. also, prayers up for the crew-chief who just lost his “baby”.
The Air Force pilot of a F-16 that crashed Friday near Phoenix is unlikely to have survived, an Air Force source has told FOX News.
The source said a witness saw the plane go down but no parachute, and the crash might have occurred when the pilot lost consciousness due to flying conditions.
A definitive cause of the crash and the condition of the pilot still aren’t available.
The crash occured at about noon Friday south of Alamo Lake, Ariz., during a student training mission out of Luke Air Force Base. The pilot was the only person on board.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-10104.html
damn
If you go back 50 years, things used to be a lot more dangerous.
...and seemingly less news worthy, and I can go back 50 years. Although at the time I probably didn’t care much about news.
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