Posted on 03/22/2011 4:27:12 AM PDT by kristinn
USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Mediterranean Sea, Mar 22, 2011 — Two crew members ejected from their U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle when the aircraft experienced equipment malfunction over northeast Libya, March 21, 2011 at approximately 10:30 p.m. CET.
Both crew members ejected and are safe.
The aircraft, based out of Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, was flying out of Aviano Air Base in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn at the time of the incident.
The cause of the incident is under investigation.
The identities will be released after the next of kin have been notified.
Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide operational and tactical command and control of U.S. military forces supporting the international response to the unrest in Libya and enforcement of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973. UNSCR 1973 authorizes all necessary measures to protect civilians in Libya under threat of attack by Qadhafi regime forces.
You never tell the families anything about missions, unless someone is hurt, killed, are missing in action. Actually military assignemts are none of nufb.
Looks like another million dollar missile was used to destroy it.
Especially when we have a female pilot taken, sitting on qaddafi's lap on a live cnn broadcast with boulf blitzer straighting quadfers robes and telling the bitch to suck it up before going live.
This was likely a technical incident, or will necessarily be related as such.
We need to get out of this particular theater, there is nothing there for us but liability and embarrassment.
Mechanical failure is being blamed for the crash . . .
Same thing happened with our Carter Admn. helicopters
while trying to rescue the 444 American Hostages.
RATS in control means our military equipment is out of control.
A F-15 is not one of our high-tech stealth aircraft. The role of tank killer would be more appropriate. Going down in North East Libya would seem to confirm that. Unless GDaffi’s forces have defense installations in that area.
why the hell we’re there is beyond me and how hypocritical for the left now to say they have no problem with another war.
A war which has nothing at all to do with us and will cost us more money while we’re fighting two other wars.
What do these hypocritical idiots say but wiht changed words, ah yes
oabma lied and people died
True but the electronics have been upgraded since then.
still trying to figure how the anti war folks have no problem with this and why the hell we’re spending money there and wasting time in an area which has nothing to do with us.
The Arab league wants nutter to stop then let them do it for crying out loud
I imagine the anti war crowd will be protesting like mad over a 3rd war, oh wait their messiah started this while on vacation with his mother in law on our dime and never got permission from congress and then carried on with his vacation with family and MOTHER IN LAW
WTH is she doing there and why are we paying for her vacations and to live in the white house, have free food, no bills etc?
No matter the world is in turmoil but hey fat arse gets a vacation AGAIN.
Hardly used fleets of frontline US made F-15’s & 16’s are sitting idle in Saudi, Kuwait and Egypt. It’s the Arabic equivalent of used French military equipment’ We should borrow them instead of flying our worn out planes.
Prayers that they truly are and will stay safe!
The F-15Es are much newer than the F-15Cs; they were produced for the USAF through 2001.
Nothing of value left there for anyone...
That's the only kind of war that the Dems and the left and libs will support: one in which there is no national interest at stake ( see Kosovo ).
Not usually associated with "safe"...
They do notify next of kin if you’ve just been shot down by hostile forces. Nothing unusual about that at all.
Good thing they were picked up by the rebels....what would Premier Hussein do if that had been an American crew, and were captured by Kadaffy??
Better yet, what happens after Premier Hussein summarily withdraws all US Forces from Libya, and one of the coalition aircraft gets shot down and the crew captured. What then??
do you think the rebels would treat a female pilot any better?
In Iraq female pilots had both arms and legs broken (maybe on ejection) and were repeatedly raped.
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Love it when I can dust off and reuse old 80s memes.
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