U.S. Military Aircraft down in Med

[B52gator]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-aircraft-crashes-mediterranean-sea-after-training-mishap-no-indication-hostile-activity

 

Interesting that they haven’t even released which aircraft it was. They usually get that info out fast. Is it me or is the military being “tight lipped” a little out of the ordinary? Anybody have unclass intel on this?

[ClearedHot]

F-35C would be my bet...

[Fly4five]

I see plane spotters reporting a p-8 and C-17 were also in the area at the time. Hopefully we'll get more info soon. Prayers up

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[Fly4five]

Nickel on the grass

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[di1630]

Helo I think


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[McJay Pilot]

160th SOAR crew, damnit. 🥃

Alert delivered on Sun Nov 12 2023 13:26:17 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time):

Caption: Five US Army Special Operations members conducting contingency planning for Israel-Hamas war killed in MH-60 helicopter crash while refueling off coast of Cyprus: News Outlet via New York Times.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/us/politics/us-service-members-killed-crash.html?smid=tw-share

Link to alert in First Alert: https://firstalert.dataminr.com/#alertDetail/6/9706056948404626584-1699820616955-1

Edited November 12, 2023 by McJay Pilot
Bad link

[ClearedHot]

9 minutes ago, McJay Pilot said:

160th SOAR crew, damnit. 🥃
LINK

Your link is bad and might not be the SOAR.  The NYTimes article says MH-60 and special forces but the U.S. Navy operates a small fleet of MH-60R/S helos that support ASW and SOF.

Regardless, a sad day. 

[herkbum]

https://x.com/lucasfoxnews/status/1723803651473297412?s=46&t=9pVj6flBB_vLdsN46i_EMA


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Sounds like it was the 160th

[McJay Pilot]

18 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

Your link is bad and might not be the SOAR.  The NYTimes article says MH-60 and special forces but the U.S. Navy operates a small fleet of MH-60R/S helos that support ASW and SOF.

Regardless, a sad day. 

Tracking the Navy also has MH-60’s that do SOF support, but they don’t do HAAR and all the links said it was during an air refueling event.

You hit the nail on the head with the last line though brother. I was selfishly hoping there’d be minimal chance I knew those involved. Not great odds now.

[Biff_T]

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[M2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12740531/Military-crash-plane-Mediterranean-Sea-victims.html

[uhhello]

Will be very interesting to see how it happened.  Maybe spatial d'd.  

[HuggyU2]

And... let the speculation begin.  

[uhhello]

16 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:

And... let the speculation begin.  

How long should we wait?  

I'm super impressed they were able to recover the entire crew so fast.  Sister ship was on point or there was a ship right there at the time.  Water recovery at night like that is impressive.  

Edited November 13, 2023 by uhhello

[HuggyU2]

11 hours ago, uhhello said:

How long should we wait?  

I would guess you've been around long enough to have an idea. 

[gearhog]

RIP. 🍺 

- Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee

-Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane M. Barnes, 34, of Sacramento, California.

-Staff Sergeant Tanner W. Grone, 26, of Gorham, New Hampshire.

-Sergeant Andrew P. Southard, 27, of Apache Junction, Arizona.

-Sergeant Cade M. Wolfe, 24, of Mankato, Minnesota.

[kona4breakfast]

On 11/12/2023 at 5:02 PM, uhhello said:

I'm super impressed they were able to recover the entire crew so fast.  Sister ship was on point or there was a ship right there at the time.  Water recovery at night like that is impressive.  

I doubt they did yet, at least not all of them. I hope more data gets made public as there's a super brave dude on sister ship.

[uhhello]

2 minutes ago, kona4breakfast said:

I doubt they did yet, at least not all of them. I hope more data gets made public as there's a super brave dude on sister ship.

You're right.  I thought I had read that all were recovered somewhere.  

[raimius]

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