W powietrzu zdeżyły się dwa samoloty F-15

[Dukes]

Witam!
Własnie usłyszałem w RMF FM, że w powietrzu zdeżyły się dwa myśliwce F-15. Na wp i onecie narazie nic nie piszą może pózniej się coś pojawi. Kurde co się dzieje, co tydzień katastrofa lotnicza, to F-16, Mirrage a teraz F-15

[Spoterek]

MIAMI — Two fighter pilots are missing after their jets collided in mid-air off the Florida Panhandle Wednesday during a training mission.

Search and rescue teams are en route to the crash while the conditions of the two pilots is unknown.

The two F-15 C Eagle fighter jets disappeared about 3 p.m. ET off the Florida Panhandle over the Gulf of Mexico, said Eglin Air Force Base spokesman Sgt. Brian Jones.

The Coast Guard sent three helicopters, a plane and two boats to the scene.

"We don't know what led to the disappearance," said Master Sgt. Andrew Leonhard, an Air Force spokesman. "We had no contact from the pilots."

The crash occurred about 50 miles south of Tyndall Air Force Base.

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[eNwings]

No to 3mam kciuki za załogi, chociaż odnajdowanie ludzi na pełnym morzu nie należy do rzeczy łatwych... Na szczęście niedaleko w Miami jest główna baza US Coast Guard co napewno znacznie przyspieszy i usprawni akcję ratunkową.

UPDATE:

jest info, załoga uratowana! uffff

UPDATE: 21.02.2008 ~ 10.53 CET

Air Force: 1 pilot dies, another survives after F15Cs collide

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Kurcze... idąc spać byłem w dobrym nastroju [*]

[Spitfire]

Teraz pod linkiem wskazanym przez Spoterka jest już taka wersja:

FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S.
Air Force Pilot Dead After Likely Mid-Air Collision

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — One of the F-15C fighter pilots involved in what the Air Force said was likely a mid-air collision Wednesday during a training mission has died.

The other is in goos condition at Eglin Hospital.

"The 33rd fighter Wing Nomads and Team Eglin have suffered a great loss today and my heart goes out to the family and friends of our fallen airman," said Col. Todd Harmer, the commander of the air wing that included the two downed jets, in a statement. "We will continue to do anything we can to assist our families and airmen at this tragic time."

The pilots ejected over the Gulf of Mexico and were later rescued, the Air Force said.

Eglin Air Force Base spokeswoman Shirley Pigott said the pilots were rescued after their single-seat F-15C Eagles crashed off the Florida Panhandle, about 35 miles south of Tyndall Air Force Base.

Harmer said the planes crashed during a training exercise "emphasizing basic maneuvers and tactics."

Weather in the area was clear.

"Two F-15 Cs assigned to the 33rd Fighter Wing, 58th Fighter Squadron, at Eglin Air Force Base crashed in what appears to be a mid-air collision over the Gulf of Mexico," Harmer said Wednesday night.


He said both pilots had been with the wing "for quite some time," but didn't give more details.

The cause of the collision was not immediately determined, but the Air Force will be investigating, he said.

Coast Guard Petty Officer James Harless said a Coast Guard rescue jet located one pilot and radioed the location to a fishing vessel, which picked him up. 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.

The pilots were taken to Eglin Air Force Base hospital.

Harless said that no debris from the jets has been found yet.

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 up to 65,000 feet and each costs about $30 million, according to the Air Force.

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co się dzieje, co tydzień katastrofa lotnicza, to F-16, Mirrage a teraz F-15

Martwi mnie raczej czy coś nie dzieje się z F-15. To już trzecie bodaj w ostatnim czasie niepokojące doniesienie dotyczące tego samolotu... Choć tym razem wygląda to na winę pilota.