We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:46:34 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard Title: USAF F-16 CRASH INVESTIGATION BEGINS Description: SOUTHWEST ASIA � The interim safety investigation board convened by U.S. Central Command Air Forces has begun its efforts to gather evidence to determine what caused a United States Air Force F-16C to crash approximately 20 miles northwest of Baghdad at about 1:35 p.m. Monday. The single-seat jet was in direct support of extensive coalition ground combat operations when it crashed in an uninhabited field. Coalition reconnaissance assets and fighter aircraft were overhead when the crash occurred and confirmed that insurgents... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:53:07 -0600 Well, the "good" news is that reporters have apparently seen footage that includes the dead pilot tangled up in his parachute lines near the wreckage. --"Good" in the sense that he is not being tortured at the hands of the terrorists, but terrible becauase he is dead and bad because they will surely try to put his body to propaghanda purposes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53461 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53461 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:41:41 -0600 Yet another reason to be ever-so joyful, eh Bill? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53440 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53440 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:00:05 -0600 It should also be instructive to learn what *wasn't* found in the wreckage -- even if it is determined that the crash wasn't survivable. Nothing makes your day go by slower than knowing that the Bad Guys can monitor your *secure* transmissions... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53436 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53436 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:50:40 -0600 I've been following this story since it broke yesterday. It worries the hell out of me that they can't find the pilot. Our guys circled the area after the crash, but I guess they left before our ground forces reached the plane. Mistake. BIG mistake. I wonder why they left him. I am just sick about this. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53433 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/11/uhoh.html#comment-53433 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:18:27 -0600