28.01.2013 - Havárie F-16, pilot nalezen mrtev

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Machine F-16CM from the air base Aviano belonging 31. operating group 31. fighter wings USAFE crashed in the Adriatic sea (Mediterranean sea). The crash occurred during a training flight.
In the search for the missing machine and the pilot is also engaged Italian vessels and aircraft.

29.1.2013 find Italian search teams the ruins of which are expected to include the crashed vessel the machine. The Pilot has not yet been found. He probably died in the crash.

Source:
aviation-safety.net
www.usafe.af.mil
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123334158
http://www.f-16.net/news_article4689.html.
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The missing pilot is Capt. Lucas Gruenther, chief of security flying 31. fighter wings.

On the search for the missing pilot is now involved in the machine HC-130 from the U.With. Africa Command and the P-3 Orion from the U.With. Naval Forces Europe.

Source:
www.aviano.af.mil.
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31.1.2013 - Body captain Gruenthera was found. Unfortunately the crash survivors.

www.aviano.af.mil.
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The american air force issued a zaverecny report, shrnujici cause of the accident. The Pilot the influence of the high speed, weather and bryli for the night videni lost spatial orientation. From the aeroplane he tried to eject, neuspesne.

Pilot Lucas Gruenther was posthumously povysen to major.

www.globalsecurity.org.
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