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| US. Air Force Jet forced to land in India |
| 2004-02-20 |
| A U.S. Air Force refueling jet was forced to land at India’s international airport on Friday, apparently due to technical trouble, officials said. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi said the KC-10 refueling jet had flown in with the F-15C after joint exercises in central India. After the squadron took off again, the jet returned for technical reasons. The United States and India have been holding joint air combat exercises in Gwalior, 155 miles south of New Delhi, since Feb. 16 in which F-15C aircraft and 150 American airmen from the Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska are taking part. According to media reports one of the engines of the jet was on fire when it landed, but that there were no injuries. Fire on a KC-10, that rates a "9" on the anal pucker factor scale. The exercise code-named ``Cope India 04’’ is slated to run through Feb. 25. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 I thought I read something just this week saying that everything with the tanker fleet was hunky-dory and we didn't really need to be replacing anything? |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-2-20 9:18:24 PM |