Here we go again. The AP is reporting this morning that a Hawaiian ANG F-15 from the 154 Wing/199FS based out of Hickam AFB lunged into the ocean on Friday.
The pilot said he could not control the plane and started to lose altitude before the crash, according to Lee. That's when he made the decision to eject and parachuted to the water 60 miles south of Honolulu.
The cause of the crash was being investigated. The plane had experienced no problems during a routine training exercise earlier in the day, Lee said.
The crash comes just a few weeks after the Hawaii Air National Guard, which uses the fighter jets to patrol island airspace, resumed flying the jet. The Guard returned 13 of its 20 planes to the air on Jan. 9. The remaining seven were still grounded and were undergoing inspections by engineers.
The full AP story can be found at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327786,00.html
I have covered the problems with the F-15 program extensively here on MMP. You can see some of this at the following links:
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/01/kadena-f-15s-returning-to-flight.html
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/01/air-force-leaders-discuss-f-15-accident.html
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/01/f-15-eagle-accident-report-released.html
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/01/air-force-may-shrink-its-f-15-fleet.html
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2008/01/air-combat-command-clears-selected-f.html
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2007/11/air-force-suspends-some-f-15-operations.html