Khamis Gadhafi is reported to have been killed Saturday — but possibly as early as Tuesday, March 15 — by a traitor (hero/martyr) Libyan air force pilot who nose-dived his fighter jet into the Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound. The pilot was reported to have been dispatched to a bombing run in the eastern part of Libya where rebels are fighting. Instead the pilot turned around and deliberately crashed his jet into the Gaddafi family compound.
Courtesy: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Public Affairs, Produced by Staff Sgt. Daniel Delgado, sound bites from Mr. John Pennell, J.B.E.R. Spokesman and Col. Jack McMullen, Commander, 3W.
Crashed F-22
The aircraft and pilot lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time 16 November 2010 while on a nighttime training mission.
The finding of part of the ejection seat and personal effects led rescuers and investigators to believe that the pilot did not survive. Temperature in the area is down to -20°F.
The crash site is in a valley and wet area that is frozen over with the majority of the aircraft below the surface, and approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska. Search and rescue was conducted by the Alaska Air National Guard Rescue Coordination Center, the 3rd Wing and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. A helicopter crew discovered the crash site the morning of November 17, 2010.
The pilot, Captain Jeffrey Haney, was confirmed killed in the crash, according to a statement released by the Air Force on Friday, November 19, 2010.
Video of the launch of the X-37B on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
The X-37B spacecraft was launched as a United States Air Force mission, rather than a NASA mission, on April 22, 2010. The Boeing X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator is an unpiloted demonstration spaceplane that is intended to test future launch technologies while in orbit and during atmospheric reentry. The X-37B is a reusable robotic spacecraft that is a 120 percent–scaled derivative of the X-40A. The X-37 had its first flight as a drop test on April 7, 2006 at Edwards AFB.
Launch will occur from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral. This was the first launch of the Atlas V 501 configuration, and the first flight of the X-37B.
