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MSNBC ^ | 11/17/2010 | NBC News/News Services

Posted on 11/17/2010 8:59:29 AM PST by AnnaZ



ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Search and rescue teams are looking for a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and its pilot that went missing during a flight over Alaska late Tuesday, military officials told NBC News.

The officials said the advanced stealth fighter jet was about 90 miles northeast of Elmendorf Air Force Base when it "dropped off the radar."

There was no mayday or any other communication from the pilot that would have indicated the plane was in trouble, the officials told NBC News. There have been no distress calls from the pilot since the plane went missing.

U.S. military helicopters and at least one C-130 have so far failed to turn up any sign of the missing fighter jet, according to NBC News.

Base spokeswoman Corinna Jones told The Associated Press Tuesday night that the pilot was the only person in the craft, which was on a training mission. Air traffic control lost contact with the jet at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time, she added.

Jones declined to identify the pilot, but noted the aircraft is assigned to Elmendorf's 3rd Wing.

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I fell in love with the F-22 at the Fort Worth air show a few weeks ago.

My thoughts so far... this story is either very sad, or very odd.

1 posted on 11/17/2010 8:59:31 AM PST by AnnaZ
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To: AnnaZ
"U.S. military helicopters and at least one C-130 have so far failed to turn up any sign of the missing fighter jet"

Of course, it's a STEALTH fighter.

2 posted on 11/17/2010 9:02:33 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: AnnaZ

Perhaps he was offered a billion to fly it to Siberia.


3 posted on 11/17/2010 9:03:07 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Paladin2
Of course, it's a STEALTH fighter.

LOL.

4 posted on 11/17/2010 9:03:49 AM PST by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: AnnaZ

I heard it was so stealthy, it was still on the runway, didn’t even take-off!


5 posted on 11/17/2010 9:05:35 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: AnnaZ

>>The officials said the advanced stealth fighter jet was about 90 miles northeast of Elmendorf Air Force Base when it “dropped off the radar.” <<

Dropped off radar? That makes this a “dog bites man” story.


6 posted on 11/17/2010 9:07:48 AM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: AnnaZ

7 posted on 11/17/2010 9:07:48 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: AnnaZ

prayers up


8 posted on 11/17/2010 9:07:57 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just reload)
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To: AnnaZ
It's a wonder MSNBC hasn't blamed Sarah Palin.

Prayers for the crew.

9 posted on 11/17/2010 9:08:23 AM PST by TexasCajun
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God bless the men that fly and fight.

Fighter aircraft are dangerous just sitting on the ground, unfueled. I hope they find the pilot safe.

/johnny

10 posted on 11/17/2010 9:08:34 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: AnnaZ

Coming soon, the MiG-22...


11 posted on 11/17/2010 9:10:07 AM PST by Flightdeck (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: TexasCajun
It's a wonder MSNBC hasn't blamed Sarah Palin.

It's still early...

12 posted on 11/17/2010 9:11:06 AM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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To: Big Giant Head

Ping.


13 posted on 11/17/2010 9:12:26 AM PST by Marie Antoinette (Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
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To: AnnaZ

maybe the pilot took it home because he didn’t want to be groped at the airport on his next vacation & figured since he already had a fast plane...


14 posted on 11/17/2010 9:13:16 AM PST by Darth Dan
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To: AnnaZ

Prayers for the pilot!


15 posted on 11/17/2010 9:14:21 AM PST by vpintheak (Obama sez I'm an enemy and I will be punished. My Savior has overcome the world.)
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To: Jewbacca

Ding Ding Ding! We may have a winner. Billion is alot of 0s!


16 posted on 11/17/2010 9:15:29 AM PST by crazydad
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No you mean the Chandong 22....

Remember this kid with the rubber face that snuck in the country? What if the pilot is drugged @ a Holiday Inn in a stuper and they snuck one by us with a rubber faced thief?

Or is their some Biometric system that is classifed to prevent this?

17 posted on 11/17/2010 9:16:20 AM PST by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: AnnaZ

Have any contrails been seen in that area?


18 posted on 11/17/2010 9:17:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: TexasCajun
It's a wonder MSNBC hasn't blamed Sarah Palin.

Read some of the reader comments. Some of the mentally ill liberals could not pass up the opportunity to use the situation to take a stab at Palin.

19 posted on 11/17/2010 9:19:12 AM PST by JaguarXKE (RINOs be gone!)
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To: AnnaZ

It could’ve been taken out by the same invisible sub from China that test fired a missile off the California coast a week or so ago.

Seriously though, we do lose a fair number of servicemen in accidents, especially on carriers. That’s bad enough.

Hopefully this is not a matter of a malicious nation testing us. That’d be worse. Another sign of America’s decline.

We need to reverse that decline.


20 posted on 11/17/2010 9:20:24 AM PST by fruser1
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