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 extreme cold.
The weather in Alaska is really bad at this moment, but the search 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 160km north of the base. At 7.40pm, F-22 fell off the radar, losing communication. According to McMullen:
The other pilot (Rocky One) went to a tanker, got gas and then continued to look 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 entire night.
They have now found the $US143 million fighter wreckage, but the pilot (Rocky Three) is nowhere to be found. Hopefully they will locate and rescue him soon. [Associated Press—Photo by U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Garrett Hothan]
TheBlack
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 12:37 PMSecond sentence is contradictory of itself.
“The search an rescue crews think they found the wreckage yesterday, but there’s no sign of the pilot.”
THINK they found the wreckage…
No SIGN of the pilot…
So they either found the wreckage; or not?
– See end of the article for the answer to both these questions…
I won’t point out the obvious spelling mistake ;)
Adrian Blackwell
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 2:54 PMcome on TheBlack, don’t you know Tundra covered Alaska is a commonplace to find crashed $143 million F22′s? They just litter the snow up there, it’s a real problem when looking for a specific F22.
Steve
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 3:20 PMI’m guessing that ‘thinking they found wreckage’ means they found PARTS of the plane, which doesn’t bode well for the pilot.
The F-22 is a land-based fighter, incapable of short take-off/landing, and it’s unlikely the pilot could have landed a several tonne, large plane on an airfield or any flat plot of land.
That said, they probably found remains of a $150 million fighter, and don’t even know if the pilot was devoured by predators or not.
Ward Paterson
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 3:48 PMJesus was just having a “I can’t be bothered changing the wording of the plagurised information” day..
Its not his fault. :-p
Painkiller
Friday, November 19, 2010 at 7:13 PMIts not plagurised, he acknowledged the source: Associated Press. Its at the end of the article.