Popular Mechanics: Did the Military Crash a Mystery Plane in the Nevada Desert?
The Air Force isn't revealing any details about a "classified" aircraft involved in fatal crash.
The U.S. Air Force has refused to reveal the aircraft involved in a crash last week that claimed the life of the pilot. The incident, which took place at a training facility in Nevada, has sparked speculation that some kind of previously unknown aircraft was involved.
The incident took place on Tuesday, September 5. Unusually, the Air Force waited about three days to make the crash public. Consider two other crashes the service reported last week, one involving two A-10 Thunderbolt fighters and the other an Iraqi Air Force officer flying an F-16. In both cases the incident was reported the next day.
The more cryptic accident took place on the Nevada Test and Training Range, about 100 miles northwest of Nellis Air Force Base. The NTTR bills itself as the "the largest contiguous air and ground space available for peacetime military operations in the free world", with 2.9 million acres of land and 12,000 square miles of airspace to test equipment and train U.S. military forces.
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WNU Editor: Speculation on the classified plane that crashed is now starting .... Here are some theories about which classified plane crashed near Nellis Air Force base (Business Insider).
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General Goldfein commented: "I can definitely say it was not an F-35... Not after the crash, anyway. It was pretty F-35ish right up until the crash, but immediately after the crash the aerodynamics improved dramatically, taking it outside of the F-35 performance envelope."
My money is on it being an F35. Too many sales. Far too political to be revealed that an F35 had crashed.
Whatever it was, it was likely designed without vertical stabilizers.
I remember that something like this happened in the early 1980's. The crash attracted attention because the pilot was a 3-star general and flag officers were prohibited by regulation from flying without a co-pilot and this was a single seat aircraft. So, the Air Force "leaked" that he was flying a Mig-23. It turned out to be disinformation when it was revealed some years later that he had been flying an F-117, the existence of which was not revealed until 1989.
So, if you hear soon that he was flying some particular type of aircraft than you should be aware of this history. They might be putting out disinformation again.
Carl,
I remember that story. But I never knew that it was a F-117.
There was an interesting incident that happened off the coast of San Diego last month, what struck me was how the media reported it, initially the called it a civilian flying a commercial aircraft that ejected and was rescued. I couldn't think of many commercial aircraft that had ejection seats.
https://www.google.com/amp/fox5sandiego.com/2017/08/22/pilot-ejects-from-plane-off-coast-of-san-diego/amp/
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