Posted on 11/17/2010 2:41:04 PM PST by Kartographer
Search and rescue aircraft have discovered the apparent wreckage of an Air Force F-22 assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time yesterday while on a nighttime training mission.
To continue searching for the missing pilot, a rescue team is being dispatched to the area, approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage, by the Alaska Air National Guard Rescue Coordination Center, the 3rd Wing and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
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Sounds like he ejected...hope he survived.
Cumulus Granitus
I don't want to be flamed for being morbid or for being flippant on a thread like this, but that there is funny!
I do hope the pilot ejected safely and is found alive.
If he had ejected and survived he would have had a radio/cell. They are looking for human remains in the crash site. Probably not much left....
Doesn’t sound promising. Would sure be nice to hear that he got out.
Yeah...I didn’t think of that before I responded....I was hoping he punched out.
I hope the pilot survived and i hope the add at least on more F-22 to the production line.
I will join in prayer for the pilot and family, and for the searchers who likely are facing an unhappy mission.
It comes from being raised on a Marine Corps airbase.
I fear the worst for the pilot.
They are describing it as a rescue mission, not a recovery mission. It’s a very thin reed of hope to cling to, but I’m clinging with all my might.
100 miles North of Anchorage is some rough country, but these guys are trained how to survive an ejection and hang tough until rescue arrives. They have survival beacons and radios that will help locate the pilot, and it’s a good sign that they have found the crash site.
Prayers for all, including for a whole bunch of Search and Rescue troops who are heading into the boondocks with some major winter weather moving in to rescue one of their own...
oh, my Lord, me too .. I did notice they wrote “rescue” and took hope from that choice of word.
I don’t understand in this day and age why pilots go up without a homing device on their person. Think Steve Fossett.
Thanks for posing - the Guys at the 176th (ANG) are some of the best PJs around.....
Thanks for posting - the Guys at the 176th (ANG) are some of the best PJs around.....
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