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The one pilot was taping up an Anna pic to his canopy... |
Posted on 06/11/2007 3:25:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An F-15 fighter jet crashed Monday after colliding in mid-air with another military jet during a training exercise, Air Force officials said. The other jet landed safely, and no one was seriously injured.
The pilot of the F-15C ejected safely and was taken a military hospital, said Airman Jennifer Anton, a spokeswoman at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks. The pilot did not have serious injuries, she said.
The pilot of the other jet, an F-16C that landed safely, was uninjured, she said.
It was not immediately clear why the two jets collided at 11:23 a.m. local time during a training exercise about 90 miles east of Fairbanks in Alaska's interior, Anton said. A board of Air Force officers will investigate.
The crash happened at the Pacific Alaska Range Complex, a 60,000-acre training ground.
The $27 million F-15C that crashed was from Langley Air Force Base, Va., and the F-16C was from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
The Alaska Air National Guard took the F-15C pilot to Bassett Army Hospital at Fort Wainwright, also near Fairbanks, said McHugh Pierre, a spokesman for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
The training exercise includes more than 1,400 military members from the U.S., Singapore and Australia. The simulated combat exercise is scheduled to run through June 15, according to Eielson's Web site.
As per Fox news, both are okay, one taken to hospital.
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The one pilot was taping up an Anna pic to his canopy... |
Perhaps they got too close.
Hey! You break it, you bought it!!!!!
And that is two pilots that should never be allowed to fly a raptor.
The pilots are safe. I personally could give a rat's arse how much the plane cost or where it was from.
Friggin communist media! < *rolleyes* >
so glad they are ok. Whew.
Pricing out the cost of the jets lost is a way for the media to bash the military.
Agreed.
Glad the pilots are okay.
Thank you, Lord - in Jesus’ name, Amen.
It's not the fall that kills you, no matter what altitude you fall from. It's the sudden stop at the end of the fall, every time.
LOL!
Something here about an envelope and pushing and it being outside I suspect.
First, we had way too many helicopter accidents; now we are colliding jets in midair?!?
Maybe they should not take everyone that wants to fly a plane, and maybe we should be taking the women out of the military! The abilityy seems to have plummeted. How I wish we had the pilots that we had in the past; they seemed vastly more competent.
I agree!
“In our 1996 review,\2 we reported that DOD aviation safety had
improved significantly over the previous two decades. Between fiscal
year 1975 and 1995, for example, the annual number of Class A mishaps
decreased from 309 to 76, while the number of fatalities decreased
from 285 to 85. During this period, Class A mishaps per 100,000
flying hours, referred to as the mishap rate, also decreased from
about 4.3 to 1.5. The value of Class A losses during the early 1990s
ranged from a high of about $1.6 billion in fiscal year 1993 to a low
of $1.2 billion in fiscal year 1994.”
Thank God the pilots are ok! Hey, you guys at the factory! Order up!
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