Why did it take so bloody long to find them ?
personal emergency beacons didn’t activate as there was no ejection. and RuAF aircrafts doesn’t have GLONASS/GPS transponders
and – it happens everywhere
11/17/2010 – JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AFNS) — Alaska Air National Guard search and rescue crews have found the apparent wreckage of an F-22 Raptor Nov. 17 that was assigned to the 3rd Wing here.
The jet lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. local time while on a routine training mission Nov. 16.
A search was coordinated by officials with the Alaska ANG Rescue Coordination Center. Airmen in HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters and an HC-130 King combed an area northeast of Cantwell, Alaska, the last known location of the aircraft.
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“The other pilot (Rocky One) went to a tanker, got gas and then continued to look for the mishap pilot,” Colonel McMullen said. “He could not find him. At that time, the Alaska ANG scrambled a C-130 and rescue helicopters. They searched the entire night.”
About 10:15 a.m., an Alaska ANG helicopter found a site that fits the data and the description of where rescuers thought the mishap probably occurred, Colonel McMullen said
more recent MoD incognito-sourced statements say that ‘Rakushin died on impact, too and it was paramedic’s mistake who erroneously determined that body at crash site has vital signs’
all accident investigation boards have their skeletons in the closet…
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