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U.S. Jet Crashes in Iraq (Update)
...and a U.S. Air Force jet crashed in Anbar province, a hotbed of the Sunni-Arab insurgency, officials said. Al-Jazeera reported that the pilot was killed. After the F-16CG jet went down, a witness said other U.S. warplanes rushed to the crash site about 20 miles northwest of Baghdad and circled above it. The U.S. military, which released a statement on the crash, did not have any information on the suspected cause or the fate of the pilot. But Al-Jazeera television showed videotape of the wreckage in a field and what appeared to be portions of a tangled parachute nearby, and the broadcaster said the video included scenes of the dead pilot but that they were too graphic to air. One shot showed an Air Force seal that said Air Combat Command. Mohammed Al-Obeidi, who lives in the nearby town of Karmah, said by telephone that he saw the jet flying erratically before it nose-dived and exploded in a field. CNN is saying this morning that USAF has 'DNA samples' from the crash site and will release the test results 'as soon as they have them'. They seemed disappointed that that an earlier report that the bad guys got to the pilot may not be true. Mike Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-28 |
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