USAF F-15E down! (picture)

[anon45]

It happened as follows:

The F-15 was flying over hostile territory and was shot down with an AA artillery (no SAM). The pilots ejected and an helicopter was sent to rescue them. A crowd of civilians approached to see/salute them, the crew panicked and opened fire. 6 killed or injured. Sad, but not surprising at all.

Injured not killed... and it wasn't the F-15 crew it was the rescue crew which opened fire.

You don't know how the plane was shot down, you'll believe what you want, as will everyone else here.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Looking at the pics, just wondering crashing due to technical/mechanical fault the landed a/c should be in one piece, but I don't see any front part of the plane. Looks as if before crashing the plane broke into pieces. I may be wrong though.

 

[RazorMC]

Must have landed hard nose-first or probably in a nose-dive. That could explain the missing cockpit.
But shooting down an f-15 is very hard with AA guns. It can still fly with some part of the wings missing. So I doubt that gunfire alone brought it down.

 

[Babur Han]

I hope more Coalition Planes will get Lost in Libya !