An Air Force F-22 assigned to the 3rd Wing at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Alaska time today while on a routine training mission.
Search currently underway . . .
Only update so far; aircraft was a F-22A (One pilot), no distress calls were heard, aircraft dropped off radar 90 miles NE of Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Weather conditions reported as ‘fair’, and mission described as a training flight.
Such a shame. We lost an AF contractor Cessna M337B down here in Florida during a training mission at Avon Park Air Force Range SW of TPA yesterday. All three crewmen dead. Seems like it’s a hell of a bad 48 hours for our Air Force. I only pray somehow this pilot in Alaska did survive.
Horribly sad. May Captain Hanley rest in peace. I can’t help but think of his poor wife and young kids . . . as an O-3 he was probably only around 30 years old.