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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Of course, it's a STEALTH fighter.
Perhaps he was offered a billion to fly it to Siberia.
LOL.
I heard it was so stealthy, it was still on the runway, didn’t even take-off!
>>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.
prayers up
Prayers for the crew.
Fighter aircraft are dangerous just sitting on the ground, unfueled. I hope they find the pilot safe.
/johnny
Coming soon, the MiG-22...
It's still early...
Ping.
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...
Prayers for the pilot!
Ding Ding Ding! We may have a winner. Billion is alot of 0s!
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?
Have any contrails been seen in that area?
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.
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.
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