[kristinn]

According to press reports. The pilot and crew member were picked up by rebels somewhere outside Benghazi.

[fight_truth_decay]

http://www.foxnewsinsider.com/2011/03/22/video-u-s-warplane-down-in-libya/

The plane is reported to have suffered a mechanical problem. Both pilots ejected from the F-15E Eagle jet safely.

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[OldNavyVet]

Hope the crew gets out OK.

[chuckee]

Didn’t Obama say the other day that none of our aircraft would be flying over Libya to create the impression that the French and British would be patrolling. Now we learn that our B-2s have been dropping ordinance and the bulk of the patrols are our F-15s. The French wanted this war. The French should be doing the bulk of the patrols. Did they make one first sortie and then turn over the operation to the US.Libya may be of vital interest to the Franch but Libya is as much of a vital interest to the US as were Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo.Obama has been had by the Europeans. We need to get the heck out of NATO and leave Western Europe to take care of their own interests.

[Tommyjo]

The Pentagon has stated the the F-15E wreckage has now been bombed.