Post by voynik on Feb 4, 2008 18:01:34 GMT -5
Video and audio flight recording data from the last minutes of a USAF F-16CG plane being shot down by the Serbian Air Defense.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvInbDQYdU
This downing of an American military aircraft, returning from a bombing task focused on the wider Novi Sad area occurred at night, on May 2, 1999, during the war between the Serbs and NATO.
The pilot, Lt. Col David Goldfein, ejected safely and was promptly evacuated in a standard US Army procedure, by a C-SAR team.
The initial claim that the aircraft suffered a hostile-activity unprovoked engine failure was later superseded by official sources as well as by the result of independent research, including the analysis of the recording presented here. Everything indicates that the downing of this aircraft was due to a heavy damage caused by detonation of a at least one SAM exploding in the proximity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvInbDQYdU
This downing of an American military aircraft, returning from a bombing task focused on the wider Novi Sad area occurred at night, on May 2, 1999, during the war between the Serbs and NATO.
The pilot, Lt. Col David Goldfein, ejected safely and was promptly evacuated in a standard US Army procedure, by a C-SAR team.
The initial claim that the aircraft suffered a hostile-activity unprovoked engine failure was later superseded by official sources as well as by the result of independent research, including the analysis of the recording presented here. Everything indicates that the downing of this aircraft was due to a heavy damage caused by detonation of a at least one SAM exploding in the proximity.
