enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Scott O'Grady - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_O'Grady

    Scott Francis O'Grady (born October 12, 1965) is a former United States Air Force fighter pilot.On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina by a 2K12 Kub (NATO designation SA-6 "Gainful") mobile SAM launcher and forced to eject from his F-16C into hostile territory.

  3. General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon operational history

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16...

    On 24 December 2014, a RJAF F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, and its pilot, Flight Lieutenant Muath al-Kasasbeh, was captured by Islamic State militants. [146] Initially reported as shot down by enemy fire, the ISIL reported it downed the F-16 with a MANPADS while it was flying at low altitude. Later, the US CENTCOM rejected the claim, ruling ...

  4. Ukraine just dismissed the commander of its air force after ...

    www.aol.com/ukraine-just-dismissed-commander-air...

    A portrait Ukrainian F-16 pilot Oleksiy Mes is held during the rite of burial of the deceased tactical aviation pilot, on the Day of Remembrance for Fallen Heroes, as a farewell was held on August ...

  5. List of combat losses of United States military aircraft ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_combat_losses_of...

    The pilot, Major Joseph Small III, was captured and the observer, Captain David Spellacy, was killed. Major Small was released on March 6 and Captain Spellacy's body was recovered. February 27 – An AV-8B Harrier II (Bureau Number 162740) was shot down by MANPADS. The pilot, Captain Reginald Underwood, was killed and his body was later recovered.

  6. US F-16 fighter jet pilot ejects as plane crashes in South ...

    www.aol.com/news/us-f-16-fighter-jet-041937132.html

    Pilot of F-16 fighter believed to have escaped from plane moments before it plunged into sea. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...

  7. Tarnak Farm incident - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farm_incident

    The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.

  8. UPDATE 3-F-16 pilot ejects before jet crashes into California ...

    www.aol.com/news/1-f-16-fighter-jet-233201960.html

    An F-16 fighter jet being flown in routine training exercises crashed into a warehouse just outside March Air Reserve Base in Southern California on Thursday, the pilot ejected and five people on ...

  9. Scott Speicher - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Speicher

    Eighteen months after Speicher went missing in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, friend and fellow U.S. Navy pilot Buddy Harris married Joanne. They had two children. [5] [6] Speicher's father had been a fighter pilot in World War II. Speicher went on his first airplane flight when he was five years old. [3]