A Republic of Korea Air Force F-16D Fighting Falcon crashed Monday afternoon during takeoff at Eielson Air Force Base, prompting a swift emergency response and the safe ejection of the aircrew.
The crash occurred around 4 pm as the aircraft was departing the runway. According to initial reports from Eielson, the F-16D left the surface of the airstrip and crashed nose-down on the runway, sparking a fire. The aircraft was within the base perimeter at the time of the crash.
Both crew members ejected and were transported to Bassett Army Community Hospital for further medical evaluation. Their current conditions have not been publicly disclosed, although they reportedly had some cuts, burns, and bruises.
Emergency response teams on base quickly arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire. No additional injuries were reported.
The F-16D was one of several aircraft brought to Fairbanks for participation in Red Flag-Alaska, a recurring multinational training exercise involving US and allied air forces. This year’s exercise is scheduled to begin Thursday.
Officials have not yet released the cause of the crash but said it’s under investigation.
Eielson Air Force Base is southeast of Fairbanks, and regularly hosts Red Flag-Alaska to provide a realistic combat training environment for friendly forces from across the globe.
The loss of so many US manufactured combat aircraft deployed to the Red Sea and our ongoing proxy war against Russia should be taken seriously by our Pentagon, State Department, along with the various agencies and interests of our permanent government.
They seem to have an obsessive addiction to maintaining and creating new constant overseas conflicts to maintain a rapidly failing imperial style global hegemony.
It has become clear, that the office of the Presidency does not have the centralized power, rather a permanent shadow government that focuses on overseas projects, rather than the pressing disintegration of competent governance of our homeland, and well being of our citizenry.
The drug cartel mafias, which hold the real power in Mexico, along with the tens of millions of unvetted immigrants on our side of the border should be of particular foreign policy/influence focus. Along with the fact that the citizenry does not hold the power over it’s own government.
The general staff of our military needs to be purged of the dozens of incompetent and corrupt general officers who are beholden to the MIC corporations, who have long since lost the technology competition on developing advanced weapon systems. Our MIC is incapable of surge mass production of such weapon systems and munitions we have after engaging in very dangerous conflicts, as evidenced in creating a militarized dictatorship in Kiev to create a war strategically lost, yet maintained solely to enrich politicians, generals and the MIC corporations themselves.
F-16 first flew their test model in 1973. The D variant has been in production 1981 – 2017, an extraordinary production run. As they are now starting to break (see last month’s divert into St Lawrence), perhaps it is time for a replacement. Hint: that replacement can’t something that will only put a few hundred jets in the air. That production run must put tens of thousands of airframes in the air. Yes, this means drones, autonomous and piloted. Cheers –
Many Falcon have been effectively rebuilt through the midlife Upgrade program of Lockheed Martin. They take them apart at the factory in Fort Worth and replace with systems of the current Block of production, zeroing the air frame time. New electronics, new engines,less cost than a,new,plane, and they don’t get to cost overrun us into bankruptcy with constant ” add the Latest Thing” Redesigns andchange orders, like the LCS program