Reports today indicate that America’s newest fighter-attack aircraft the F/A-22 Raptor had sustained a malfunction of its Pratt and Whitney powerplant after a routine test flight at Nellis Air Force Base. Raptor 00-012, the first F/A-22 delivered directly to the Air Combat Command by Lockheed Martin, had set off on its morning training schedule at Nellis for testing of its two F-119 thrust-vectoring engines, at approximately 10 a.m, within minutes the high tech jet crashed at the base at approximately 10:09 a.m. It was test flown by Lt. Col. David Rose, chief of Nellis’ F/A-22 Integration Office and Air Combat Command’s first F/A-22 pilot. more reports as they arrive.
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February 6, 2003 at 7:38 pm