U.S. Fighter Jet Crashes Off Australia
Jan. 29, 2006, 10:01PM
© 2006 The Associated PressSYDNEY, Australia — A U.S. fighter jet crashed into the sea off the eastern coast of Australia after failing to land on an aircraft carrier, officials and media reports said Sunday. No one was injured.
The pilot ejected Saturday after the unsuccessful landing attempt about 120 miles southeast of the Queensland state capital, Brisbane, according to Rhylla Morgan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Sydney.
The pilot was trying “to land on the flight deck. Something went wrong (so) the pilot ejected,” she said Sunday.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said the pilot was pulled from the water by a ship helicopter, but the $28 million F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter was unlikely to be recovered.
The ship, the USS Ronald Reagan, had been due to conduct naval operations in support of the war on terror as well as security commitments in the western Pacific, the ABC said.
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January 30, 2006 at 4:52 am