USAF Tanker Hose Damages Navy Fighter
A U.S. Navy pilot, his canopy shattered by a flailing refueling hose, was forced to fly an hour in freezing temperatures to an emergency landing in Pakistan. In the pilot's words, ``20,000 ft. over Afghanistan in an open air [F/A-18] cabriolet is just a bad, bad place.'' Just before dawn, during the...
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