This is breaking news and the details are sketchy regarding an American F-15E Eagle crew having to crash land inside of Libya just a short time ago. The report from Fox News states that the crew is supposedly okay...let's hope and pray so.
UPDATE: Here's some more information from TimesofMalta:
One crew member has been safely rescued and the search for the other is ongoing.
"Both aircrew ejected," the spokeswoman, Karin Burzynski, said from the command's headquarters in the western German city of Stuttgart.
"One crew member was recovered and the operation to recover the second crew member is ongoing."
The plane appeared to have suffered mechanical failure and had not been shot down, the spokeswoman said.
Here's the article:
U.S. Jet Reportedly Crash Lands in Libya, but Crew Believed Safe
TRIPOLI, Libya -- A U.S. warplane was forced to make a crash-landing in Libya after suffering from mechanical failure, The London Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.
The crew of the F-15E Eagle was believed to be safe. There was no immediate confirmation of the crash-landing from U.S. or U.K. military officials.
A correspondent for the newspaper on the ground in Libya said via Twitter that the plane plowed into a field near opposition stronghold Benghazi in the east of the country late Monday. The crew was in rebel hands, the newspaper reported.
US planes including F-16s were involved in a third night of air attacks on Libya on Monday.
2 comments:
I do hope so that the victims were fine. Let's just pray for there on going recovery. This will be a lesson to everyone, though they did not mean that the airplane would have crashed.
As a n upcoming Airman I have faith in the USAF to bring its pilots home safely .... God be with the missing airman ....
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