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Africa North
Another warplane crashes in Bengahzi
2016-02-13
[Libya Herald] Just four days after a Libyan air force MiG 23 crashed in Derna, another one crashed in Benghazi today. It came down in Hawari district, near the cement factory. The pilot, said to be the same one whose plane crashed in January, is reported to have ejected safely.

As in Derna, the Libyan air force claims that a technical problem was the cause while the murderous Moslems it is fighting -- in this cased the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-- claims that it shot the plane.

It cannot be established at present which side is telling the truth.

The part of Hawari where it crashed is bandit territory, where IS can move freely.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Unlucky? Or bad piloting?

Yes.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-02-13 21:17  

#1  The pilot, said to be the same one whose plane crashed in January, is reported to have ejected safely.

Unlucky? Or bad piloting?
Posted by: Frank G   2016-02-13 10:16  

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