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02-21-2008, 09:34 AM
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| Air Force Pilot Dead After Likely Mid-Air Collision Thursday, February 21, 2008 AP EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. An Air Force fighter pilot died Wednesday after his plane and another likely collided and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during a training exercise. The other pilot was rescued and is expected to survive. The two single-seat F-15C Eagles crashed Wednesday afternoon off the Florida Panhandle, about 35 miles south of Tyndall Air Force Base during an exercise "emphasizing basic maneuvers and tactics," said Col. Todd Harmer, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing, 58th Fighter Squadron. The Air Force will investigate, Harmer said. Weather in the area was clear. The names of the pilots haven't been released pending notification of relatives. The surviving pilot was listed in good condition. Harmer said in an e-mail statement announcing the death that Eglin Air Force Base had suffered a "great loss." "We will continue to do everything we can to assist our families and Airmen at this tragic time," he said. Both pilots had been with the wing "for quite some time," Harmer said. A search began immediately after the planes disappeared about 2 p.m. local time. A Coast Guard rescue jet located one pilot and radioed the location to a fishing vessel, which picked him up, said Coast Guard Petty Officer James Harless. A Coast Guard helicopter then hoisted the pilot off the vessel. That pilot told rescuers he saw the other pilot also eject but lost him in the clouds, Harless said. He told them the approximate location for the second pilot, who was found by a Coast Guard helicopter, Harless said. No debris from the jets has been found, Harless said. The Air Force grounded all of its F-15s nearly 700 after the catastrophic failure of an F-15C during a routine training flight in Missouri in November. The pilot safely ejected. Most were back in service by January, but others were grounded indefinitely after defects were found. The Air Force began using the F-15C in 1979. The planes, built by McDonnell Douglas Corp., were deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1991 in support of Operation Desert Storm and have since been used in Iraq, Turkey and Bosnia. The planes can fly as high as 65,000 feet, and each costs about $30 million, according to the Air Force. TO
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02-21-2008, 09:38 AM
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02-21-2008, 09:42 AM
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02-21-2008, 09:43 AM
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02-21-2008, 10:14 AM
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02-21-2008, 02:00 PM
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02-21-2008, 02:16 PM
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02-21-2008, 04:33 PM
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02-22-2008, 09:29 PM
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| I've been waiting for a statement about whether this as a C that was checked for longeron problems. If so...
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