{"id":11982,"date":"2016-09-21T05:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T05:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2016-09-21T05:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T05:44:22","slug":"u-2-spy-plane-crash-in-calif-kills-1-american-injures-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/u-2-spy-plane-crash-in-calif-kills-1-american-injures-1.html","title":{"rendered":"U-2 spy plane crash in Calif. kills 1 American, injures 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">U-2 spy plane crash in Calif. kills 1 American, injures 1<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>U-2 spy plane crash in Calif. kills 1 American, injures 1<\/strong> : SUTTER, Calif. One American pilot was killed and another injured when they ejected from a U-2 spy plane shortly before it crashed in Northern California on Tuesday morning, the U.S. Air Force said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The plane crashed shortly after taking off from Beale Air Force Base on a training mission around 9 a.m., military officials said. They did not release the pilots\u2019 names or any information about the condition of the surviving airman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The aircraft, assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, crashed in the Sutter Buttes, a mountain range about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of Sacramento.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Col. Larry Broadwell, the base commander, said the flight, including its flight path was routine before the crash. He pledged to support the family of the deceased pilot and said surveillance pilots will mourn the loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kellyinmedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kellyinmedia<\/a> <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSacramento\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CBSSacramento<\/a> hand with tiny caught with picture<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u2014 djr (@triqreen) <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/triqreen\/status\/778365763023310849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 20, 2016<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThese incidents, while extremely tragic and hard for us to overcome, they\u2019re incidents that we do overcome,\u201d Broadwell said. \u201cI am confident that the U-2 squadrons here and the U-2 squadrons around the world are going to come off the mat stronger than they were before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A grass fire broke out at the scene of the crash, reported CBS affiliate KOVR. KOVR\u2019s cameras captured the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The U-2 \u201cDragon Lady\u201d is a surveillance and reconnaissance plane capable of flying above 70,000 feet (21,336 meters), an extremely high altitude that\u2019s twice as high as a typical commercial airliner flies. The U-2 is known as one of the most difficult aircraft to fly at low altitudes due to the characteristics that allow it to travel near space, according to an Air Force fact sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Beale Air Force Base is home to the Air Force\u2019s fleet of single-seat U-2s and a double-seat variant used for training pilots to fly the specialized aircraft. It also is the base for the T-38 Talon, a training aircraft, and the RQ-4 Global Hawk, an unmanned surveillance drone. It houses 4,500 military personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cWe are saddened by our Airman\u2019s death &amp; offer condolences to the family &amp; all who are mourning this tremendous loss,\u201d Gen. Dave Goldfein, the Air Force chief of staff, said on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ejection seats allow military pilots to get out of a stricken plane and parachute safely to the ground. After the death in this instance, military investigators will look into whether the chute properly deployed and whether the pilot hit debris after ejecting, said Michael Barr, an aviation safety instructor at University of Southern California who flew fighter missions in Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cIf the chute didn\u2019t properly deploy, that would be fatal,\u201d Barr said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The U-2 is slated for retirement in 2019 as the military relies increasingly on unmanned aircraft for intelligence gathering, though senior U.S. lawmakers from California are pressuring the Air Force to delay the retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A U-2 based at Beale crashed in 1996 and slammed into the parking lot of a newspaper in Oroville, California. The pilot and a woman who had just renewed her newspaper subscription were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Source<\/strong> : http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-2-spy-plane-crash-in-california-kills-1-american-injures-1\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/u-2-spy-plane-crash-in-calif-kills-1-american-injures-1.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-2 spy plane crash in Calif. kills 1 American, injures 1 U-2 spy plane crash in Calif. kills 1 American, injures 1 : SUTTER, Calif. 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