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From: ashill@dnc.net (Angela Shilling)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 12:15:53 -0700
Fwd Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 08:36:31 -0400
Subject: Re: More Military Jet Crashes

At 08:27 AM 9/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: xalium@netwrx.net (Tom King)
>Subject: More military jet crashes.
>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:29:11 EST

>I just saw some breaking news that a B-1 bomber has crashed. They didn't
>have many details to offer yet.

>Does anyone have a total of how many military jets have crashed in the last
>2 weeks?

09/19/1997 22:54 EST

 Air Force To Ground Flights Monday

 By EUN-KYUNG KIM
 Associated Press Writer

 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force will ground all combat training flights
Monday as  part of a service-wide safety review in the wake of four crashes
of its planes in the past  week, officials said Friday night.

 The standdown had been scheduled for next Friday, but officials moved it
up four days  after a B-1 bomber on a training mission crashed in Montana,
killing all four crew  members aboard.

 The Navy, Marine Corps and Army are allowing local commanders to determine
when  they will conduct a similar one-day halt during the week. Navy and
Marine Corps fighter  jets also have crashed in the past week.

 ``We need to determine why these incidents happened and how to prevent
more  mishaps,'' said Gen. Richard E. Hawley, commander of the Air Combat
Command at  Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va.

 ``We will look at every facet across the spectrum of our operations and
zero in on the  risks associated with each tasks,'' Hawley said. ``Then we
will review the way we train,  identify ways risks can be eliminated or
minimized and take the actions necessary to  mitigate those risks.''

 President Clinton, meanwhile ``continues to have the highest confidence in
the United  States Air Force and all of our military services,'' the White
House said in a statement  after the B-1 crash Friday.

 An Air Force C-141 transport plane flying from Namibia apparently collided
with a  German military plane off the coast of Africa last Saturday. One
body was recovered and  32 people are missing. The next day, an Air Force
F-117A stealth fighter flying at an air  show near a Baltimore suburb
crashed in a residential area after a piece of the plane  broke off.

 And two Air National Guard F-16s collided Tuesday off the coast of New
Jersey; one  crashed into the Atlantic, the other landed safely. The three
pilots survived.

 Those plus the crashes of a Navy FA-18 in Oman last Sunday and a Marine
FA-18d  Hornet in North Carolina on Monday prompted Defense Secretary
William Cohen on  Wednesday to order all of the services to halt training
flights for one day next week.

 Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said Thursday the services want as many
squadrons as possible on operational missions to hold safety reviews.