DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — An Iraqi pilot who has been training in the United States for four years crashed in southern Arizona while flying an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, a spokesman for the Iraqi defense minister said Thursday.
“We have no word yet on his fate or the reason behind the crash,” Brig. Gen. Tahseen Ibrahim told The Associated Press. “We are in contact with the Americans to get more details.”
Ibrahim confirmed the pilot is Brig. Gen. Rafid Mohammed Hassan but said the pilot’s fate still is not known. He said the rescue operation is difficult because the plane hit a gas pipeline in a rural area. more
Was his last radio transmission
“Allahu Akbar”…?
General Mohammed? Am I taking Crazy Pills?
If you want to find irony and lunacy look no further than the U.S. Gubmint.
He crashed into a gas pipeline, duh?
Did he eject?
Did he take lessons on just “guiding” the plane?
We need the orange box. (Black is racist)
I know. I’m a wise ass, but once is enough to be sold the fucking Brooklyn Bridge.
And his name is not Colin Kelly.
He’s a General and it’s taken him 4 years so far? We haven’t been told the whole story. Most rag heads marry relatives and are color blind. Could this be part of the problem? Also, during Iranian revolution all Iranian student pilots were called home from their US training bases. And promptly executed. Same thing about to happen in Iraq? Easier for the General to just auger in?
Another Hassan? Like the Fort Hood Hassan? Allahu Ackbar!
I give up.
With in an hour of this plane going down Iran made the claim that they shot it down. This is no joke.
Shot down by Mexican or Guatemalan drug lords? Coyotes? Iranians? O’smen? Huh?
Yes, four years IS a long time to learn how to fly an F-16, even if he didn’t know the first thing about flying when he started. Maybe he’s being “disappeared” to avoid going back to Iraq.
A jet pilot named General Mohammed??? That’s about as stupid as having a prez named Hussein….. This country is about one toke over da line!!!
All this while the lefties whine about Fort Hood being named after John Bell Hood, who was born in the U.S. and died in the U.S.
Gee, I don’t think I like the idea of muslims flying over my head with great big destruction machines funded by the U.S. government.
My dad was a USAF pilot in the 60’s/70’s. He helped train 2 Iranian pilots. We had them over to our house for dinner on several occasions. They brought gifts. This was several years before the fall of the Shah in ’79 with the islamic revolution.
Turbo. You probably met some good men. That was before Jimmah Carter sunk the Shaw and fucked up the whole region, and brought us to where we are today. What a shame.
Probably got his prayer rug tangled in the rudder pedals. (Allah dammit!)
was he rated on a third world retard sliding scale, did he get an extra 20 pts. for signing his name on his SATs?