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Posted on 06/27/2002 9:42:18 AM PDT by Mr_Magoo
Deej
That sounds sorta familiar:
Female Air Force jet pilot dies in crashThe AF chalked that one up to *pilot error* as well. I'm not certain about the crash that claimed Major Moynihan in Idaho.May 28, 1997
Web posted at: 10:20 p.m. EDT (0220 GMT)
TUCSON, Arizona (CNN) -- One of the few women flying fighter jets for the Air Force died as the A-10 Thunderbolt plane she was flying crashed at a desert training range, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Capt. Amy Lynn Svoboda, 29, a 1989 graduate of the Air Force Academy, was killed while on "a routine training flight" Tuesday, the Air Force said.
"Fragmentary remains have been recovered" from the crash site, a spokesman told CNN. They were flown to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. for positive identification.
The cause of the crash was not confirmed. Investigators picked through the wreckage at the Barry Goldwater Air Force Range, about 50 miles southwest of Phoenix.
Svoboda, of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, was about two hours into a training flight with another A-10 when her plane went down, said Capt. Andy White, a base spokesman.
It was the Air Force's first deadly crash involving a female pilot, Pentagon spokesman Lou Timmons said.
After graduating the academy Svoboda went to pilot training at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas, and then remained as an instructor pilot in the T-37 trainer aircraft.
She went to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for A-10 training in 1996, and was a member of the 354th Fighter Squadron of the 355th Air Wing.
Svoboda was one of six women qualified to pilot an A-10 ground attack aircraft. She had more than 1,400 hours piloting jets, said Maj. Edward Worley, a Pentagon spokesman.
It is the fifth crash of an A-10 Thunderbolt, also known as the "Warthog," in the last eight months. The $8.8 million aircraft is designed to attack ground targets, including tanks, and was used extensively during the Persian Gulf War.
The last A-10 crash was in April, when Capt. Craig Button was at the controls when his plane disappeared. The debris was later found at a crash site in the Colorado Rockies. The cause is still under investigation.
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For a nation overrun with greens, France gets an amazing proportion of its power from nuclear energy.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I believe you are mistaken there. The "bathtub" in which the pilot sits is constructed of titanium and composite materials. Depleted Uranium is used in the ammunition only, as far as I know.
the Case of the Freeper FRiva Feva is under scrutiny - super-sleuths are welcomed
come resolve the way to yesterday's Target Post, you're not out of the running yet
win your registration fees to the FRive Las Vegas Conference if you dare
Bunch of ungrateful, whining pimps!
France.. immediately thinking it was under attack, announced its UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
My guess is to keep the Normandy Beach as Hallowed Ground.
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