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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: US Pilot Safe

Date: July 18, 2001

"HF-16 crashes in Turkey

07/18/01 - INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AFPN) -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed July 18 near Batman, Turkey.

The pilot, 1st Lt. Michael A. Nelson, Jr., of the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, ejected and is uninjured. He was picked up in a combined Turkish Jandarma/U.S. Air Force pararescue effort and returned here.

The aircraft, assigned to Operation Northern Watch, was en route to a mission enforcing the northern no-fly zone over Iraq.

A board of qualified officers will investigate the accident."

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