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The wreckage has been found...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/17/ai ... ng-alaska/

Any new news on the Pilot?

Mark

mark5388916 wrote:Any new news on the Pilot?

Mark

Search appears to be ongoing. Here's hoping he found the loud handle in time.

As of 1930 Alaska Time, 11-18-10, no word on the pilot. Aircraft was located, but no one can get to it. Alaska Military setting up a base camp so they can send ground troops in to it.

But, ominously, absolutely nothing from the pilot.

Speculation: He's in the plane with the Ejection Seat or he launched and didn't survive the ejection.

Weather is miserably ugly. No aircraft can fly through it at the moment, hence, the ground crews.

Morning on 11-19-10 before they will deploy.

http://www.adn.com/2010/11/18/1561424/s ... s-for.html

More details than I've seen anywhere . . .

See the link . . .

Good article, obviously someone took the time to make sure he understood what he was writing about.

Here's to hoping for a successful rescue mission!

With the gear on pilots now carry so they can be found he would have been located by now. I know there is a radio beacon that goes off the second the seat separates. Also, I think the new survival radios are supposed to be pretty capable. At the very least if they got close enough to find the wreck, they were close enough for a live pilot to get them on the radio. It isn't like this is an evasion scenario.

http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-searchers ... 8424.story

The Air Force announced in a press conference Friday that the pilot of an F-22 Raptor fighter died when his plane crashed Tuesday night about 100 miles north of Anchorage.



RIP Captain Haney . . . Salute

and

Wonder how long til they get more solid info on the cause(s).

http://www.ktuu.com/news/ktuu-searchers ... 8424.story

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Air Force says search-and-rescue teams found conclusive evidence Friday that an F-22 Raptor pilot, 31-year-old Capt. Jeffrey Haney, did not survive the crash of his aircraft 100 miles north of Anchorage Tuesday night.
Military officials said at a press conference Friday that when ground personnel reached the crash site, three days into the search-and-rescue effort, they found a part of Haney’s ejection seat and some personal gear -- including part of his flight suit.

Wow, Capt. Haney was my age. Had a family too.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the college fund for Captain Haney's daughters may be made at http://www.AirWarriorCourage.org specifying "For the Jeffrey Haney children." Or, donations can be made by check made out to AWCF, and mailed to AWCF, PO Box 877, Silver Spring, MD 20918-0877. The "For" line on the check should designate "For the Jeffrey Haney children."

http://www.jber.af.mil//news/story.asp?id=123231774

Allstarflyer wrote:Wonder how long til they get more solid info on the cause(s).

The article I read said that the recovery operation is expected to take several weeks, so likely nothing will be known until after that. The USAF safety board probably won't release any findings for a year after recovering the wreckage I'm guessing.