Posted on 11/17/2010 2:07:45 PM PST by kingattax
Washington (CNN) -- An Alaska-based Air Force F-22 that went missing on a training mission is "believed to be crashed," a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
Col. Dave Lapan did not immediately give other details about the situation.
The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control Tuesday evening, officials from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at Anchorage, Alaska, said Wednesday.
Gary Strasburg, an Air Force spokesman, told CNN that a pilot was in the single-seat aircraft during a routine training mission.
Contact was lost with the F-22 at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time (11:40 p.m. ET) on Tuesday.
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Damn....prayers for the pilot.
186 left....
Are these training missions normally solo, or do they usually fly with a wingman?
>ent missing on a training mission is “believed to be crashed...
Wow, that took some real serious thinking. /s
Wreckage From Missing Air Force Fighter Jet Found in Alaska Near Denali National Park
Any word on the pilot yet?
not yet..weird ..it was flying with another, which makes me believe something catastrophic...real fast.
Prayers up for the pilot and his family!
'Believed to be crashed' by whom?
One pilot lost the instrument in low clouds, and given the speed and
low altitude, hit the ground.
Congress immediately passed a law holding manufacturers
responsible for defects, even if they were not authorized to fix
the problem[s].
It was on some doc channel about 10 years ago.
The last problem with F-22 that I heard about was the
software glitch that occurred when "passing" the International
Date Line.
>ent missing on a training mission is “believed to be crashed...
Wow, that took some real serious thinking. /s
...this area seems to have a history, a nasty one...
had two
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