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Africa North
War plane blows up over Ganfouda as fighting rages
2017-01-16
[Libya Herald] A Libyan air force Mig 23 crashed today in Benghazi during an Arclight airstrike on Ganfouda. The pilot and company-pilot ejected safely.

A Libyan National Army front man said the warplane had suffered a technical failure with one account saying it had went kaboom! while firing rockets. The front man denied an earlier report credited to a LNA commander that the aircraft had been hit by ground fire. "If we say an aircraft has been hit it has been hit" he said, "If we say it was technical failure, it was technical failure".

The Mig’s pilot Younis al-Dinali and his co-pilot survived the kaboom. However four more members of the Saiqa Special forces, including an unnamed field commander, died today in Ganfouda. Two members of the unit were killed yesterday.

In the other hard boyz enclaves in the city, Sabri and Suq al-Hut, army engineers appear to have almost completed a series of sand berms that block roads and open ground surrounding both these downtown districts. There are unconfirmed reports that the LNA is preparing an assault.
Posted by:Fred

#2  No more chocolate covered cotton, he has lost his piece of the action.
Posted by: Shipman    2017-01-16 18:36  

#1  Pilot pilot Younis al-Dinali who escaped his Mig-23 today

never gonna make Major Major
Posted by: Frank G   2017-01-16 10:03  

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