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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Is this plane carrying the military votes for Joe Miller in Alaska?
He probably just flew through The Scary Door.
I thought that early glitch when crossing the International Date Line and causing the aircraft to immediately start flying inverted was fixed.
The only thing we have up here that could be of any remote influence would be the HAARP facility, the facility I wasn’t supposed to talk about that supposedly doesn’t work or exist.
Ahhhhh....forward energy directed at cloud full of rocks. That sounds more reasonable.
So... it's possible that the transponders in the aircraft stopped working - for whatever reason?
Hey, I’m a former USAF officer, and I’ve got buddies that are still in.
Still, our enemies would love to get their hands on one of those babies, and we’ve had (a few) turncoats in the past.
My buddies tell me things in the AF have changed quite a bit since I got out, and not for the better; PC is killing us!
F-22 wreckage found in Alaska, pilot still missing
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