F-15E crash in Libya

[Thermal]

According to the Telegraph a US F-15E crashed in Libya, pilot rescued by opposition forces. Condition of the WSO is not mentioned.
Apparently it was not shot down, reason was a technical problem.

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -Live.html#
has photos of the crash site.

Latest
10.23 US military has confirmed that a US fighter jet has crashed in Libya. A spokesman said that one crewman had been recovered and one was "in process of recovery".The Telegraph's Rob Crilly broke the story this morning that an F-15E jet had crash landed in a field last night.

[zerofive]

http://www.agi.it/rubriche/ultime-notiz ... lota_salvo

[Argus 01]

On NRC.NL:

This morning a USAF F-15E is crashed in Libya. Aircrew made a safe eject and have minor injuries.
Reason of the crash is still unknown. A spokesman of the US Africa Command won't say who helps the pilot's get out of the country, but the rescue operation is going on.

Edwin.

[Eddie]

some photos of the wreckage : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... plane.html

[Thermal]

Earlier, posts about this crash were already moved to this thread

So let's try to keep it grouped.

[mwpeters]

USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Mediterranean Sea – Two crew members ejected from their U.S. Air
Force F-15E Strike Eagle when the aircraft experienced equipment malfunction over northeast,
Libya, March 21, at approximately 10:30 p.m. CET.
Both crew members ejected and are safe.
The aircraft, based out of Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, was flying out of Aviano Air
Base in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn at the time of the incident.
The cause of the incident is under investigation.
The identities will be released after the next of kin have been notified.
Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide
operational and tactical command and control of U.S. military forces supporting the international
response to the unrest in Libya and enforcement of United Nations Security Council Resolution
(UNSCR) 1973. UNSCR 1973 authorizes all necessary measures to protect civilians in Libya under
threat of attack by Qadhafi regime forces.

[Stefan]

Yep, we are trying to keep the posts tidy, neat and logically groupes. That's not easy so if you bear with us, we'll bear with you.

The general idea:
- http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=72313 an overview of all participating aircraft and home bases
- http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=72250 the operations themselves
- http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=72317 logs from Malta ATC
- http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=72319 Libya related HF logs
- http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=72264 Libya related views & opinions

Closing this one.

Regards,
Stefan

[pjotrtje]

According to the Telegraph a US F-15E crashed in Libya, pilot rescued by opposition forces. Condition of the WSO is not mentioned.
Apparently it was not shot down, reason was a technical problem.

Aircraft is said to be 'tail 304', indicating 91-0304/LN.

[Crouze]

Yup,

Indeed 91-0304, there's clear video footage on news.sky.com

Regards,
Marco

[Richard from Rotterdam]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12819132

video footage of the crashed Strike Eagle 91-0304. Its AMRAAM and Sidewinder missiles lie next to the wreckage broken into pieces, while people investigate and kids play on the wreckage...

[LV84]

It looks kinda Weird. the plane looks as if it is fallen straight down. and is verry badly burned but there are almost no burn spots on the grount.

[SquAdmin]

Pentagon declared that the aircraft crashed due to a technical failure and wasn't shot down.

Since crashes don't happen that often I have my doubts about this explanation...

[Flyboy]

Pentagon declared that the aircraft crashed due to a technical failure and wasn't shot down.
Since crashes don't happen that often I have my doubts about this explanation...

At the risc of starting a new topic: the footage shows a burned plane which impacted the ground with minimal horizontal velocity and more or less flat (horizontal). The top of the tail seem to be broken of on impact, so do the wings. The front fuselage is completely flat (burned and/or smashed on impact) but is is still there.The damage is consistent with a flat spin. Remember that the F-15's were grounded lately for mechanical problems (they broke up) so it's not that canot have these problems.

[jp 74]

Seem like a LN F15E went down seen on het jeugd journaal.