Crashed F-22 Wreckage Found, No Sign of Pilot [Airplanes]

An F-22 Raptor crashed in Alaska on November 16. The quest an rescue crews think they found the wreckage yesterday, but there’s no sign of the pilot. In line with the USAF’s Colonel Jack McMullen, he can have a gamble at survival:

They have survival gear. He’s Arctic trained to survive in that environment. He’s got the gear on. He’s got stuff in his survival kit, so that he could hunker himself down and fight the intense cold.

The weather in Alaska is truly bad at this moment, but the quest for the pilot is active.

The F-22 belonged to the the 3rd Wing at Elmendor Air Force Base, Alaska. The plane finished its training run with another F-22 one hundred miles north of the base. At 7:40pm, F-22 fell of the radar, losing communication. In keeping with McMullen:

The other pilot (Rocky One) went to a tanker, got gas and then continued to seem for the mishap pilot. He could not find him. At that time, the Alaska Air National Guard scrambled a C-130 and rescue helicopters. They searched the total night.

They have now found the $143-million fighter wreckage, but the pilot (Rocky Three) is nowhere to be found. Hopefully, they’ll locate and rescue him soon. [ Associated Press -Photo by U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Garrett Hothan]

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