美海军两架F/A-18C坠毁 飞行员一死一伤

<h1>Navy jets crash in California, killing one</h1><h3></h3><p></p><div class="cnnStoryTime"><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>Tuesday, June 27, 2006; Posted: 7:12 a.m. EDT (11:12 GMT)</div><div class="cnnIEFloatRight"><div class="cnnInterActiveElementsContainer" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;"><div class="cnnInterActiveElementsContainer" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px;"><div class="cnnContextualLinksBox"><div id="storyCLLinkSpots"><div id="cnnContextualLinks"><div class="cnnCL"><table cellpadding="0" width="192" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div class="cnnBodyText"><b></b></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class="cnnBodyText11"><br/></div></td><td align="right">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"></script><iframe id="iframestoryCLLinkSpots" name="iframestoryCLLinkSpots" align="right" src="http://cl.cnn.com/ctxtlink/jsp/cnn/cl/1.3/cnn-story-ls-main.jsp?domId=storyCLLinkSpots&amp;id=cnnus&amp;origin=cnnsafe&amp;site=cnn_us_dyn_ctxt&amp;nkw=3?domId=storyCLLinkSpots&amp;time=1151415511453" width="0" height="0" style="VISIBILITY: hidden;"></iframe><iframe id="iframestoryCLSponsoredLinks" name="iframestoryCLSponsoredLinks" align="right" src="http://cl.cnn.com/ctxtlink/jsp/cnn/cl/1.3/cnn-story-cl.jsp?domId=storyCLSponsoredLinks&amp;time=1151415511468&amp;category=cnnus&amp;url=http://robots.cnn.com/2006/US/06/26/navy.jets/index.html&amp;site=cnn_us_dyn_ctxt&amp;maxCount=3" width="0" height="0" style="VISIBILITY: hidden;"></iframe></div><div class="cnnInterActiveElementsContainer"><div class="cnnIEHeader"><b style="FONT-SIZE: 14px;">(CNN) -- Two Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter jets crashed late Monday morning while on a training exercise over Fort Hunter Liggett, California, leaving one pilot dead, the Navy said.</b></div></div></div><p>The second pilot ejected and suffered minor injuries, according to Dennis McGrath, a spokesman for Lemoore Naval Air Station, where the two jets were based.</p><p>Initial reports indicated the planes may have collided, but McGrath said investigators had not yet made that determination.</p><p>"They were on an air-to-air intercept training mission," he said. "In World War II they called it dogfighting. They practice overcoming the tactics of another plane for combat purposes."</p><p>Don Sundias, a spokesman for Fort Hunter Liggett, said the two jets were flying at less than 3,000 feet when the accident took place.</p><p>Fort Hunter Liggett is a 165,000-acre Army Reserve training facility in the central coast of California about 150 miles south of San Francisco.</p><p>The accident took place over a remote area away from houses or other buildings, although the crash started at least one small fire that was put out, Sundias said.</p><p>The planes were part of Strike Fighter Squadron 125, nicknamed the "Rough Riders," according to an Associated Press report.</p><p>The Lemoore station is just south of Fresno, about 100 miles northeast of where the mishap took place.</p><p>The base is a training facility for F/A-18s, and dozens of fighters rotate monthly to and from aircraft carriers offshore, the AP report said.</p><p>The F/A-18C Hornet seats a single pilot and has a top speed of nearly 1,200 mph. Other models have two seats.</p><div class="cnnStoryContrib"><p><i>CNN's Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.</i></p></div><u></u><h1>Navy jets crash in California, killing one</h1><h3></h3><p></p><div class="cnnStoryTime"><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>Tuesday, June 27, 2006; Posted: 7:12 a.m. EDT (11:12 GMT)</div><div class="cnnIEFloatRight"><div class="cnnInterActiveElementsContainer" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px;"><div class="cnnInterActiveElementsContainer" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px;"><div class="cnnContextualLinksBox"><div id="storyCLLinkSpots"><div id="cnnContextualLinks"><div class="cnnCL"><table cellpadding="0" width="192" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div class="cnnBodyText"><b></b></div></td></tr><tr><td><div class="cnnBodyText11"><br/></div></td><td align="right">&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"></script><iframe id="iframestoryCLLinkSpots" name="iframestoryCLLinkSpots" align="right" src="http://cl.cnn.com/ctxtlink/jsp/cnn/cl/1.3/cnn-story-ls-main.jsp?domId=storyCLLinkSpots&amp;id=cnnus&amp;origin=cnnsafe&amp;site=cnn_us_dyn_ctxt&amp;nkw=3?domId=storyCLLinkSpots&amp;time=1151415511453" width="0" height="0" style="VISIBILITY: hidden;"></iframe><iframe id="iframestoryCLSponsoredLinks" name="iframestoryCLSponsoredLinks" align="right" src="http://cl.cnn.com/ctxtlink/jsp/cnn/cl/1.3/cnn-story-cl.jsp?domId=storyCLSponsoredLinks&amp;time=1151415511468&amp;category=cnnus&amp;url=http://robots.cnn.com/2006/US/06/26/navy.jets/index.html&amp;site=cnn_us_dyn_ctxt&amp;maxCount=3" width="0" height="0" style="VISIBILITY: hidden;"></iframe></div><div class="cnnInterActiveElementsContainer"><div class="cnnIEHeader"><b style="FONT-SIZE: 14px;">(CNN) -- Two Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter jets crashed late Monday morning while on a training exercise over Fort Hunter Liggett, California, leaving one pilot dead, the Navy said.</b></div></div></div><p>The second pilot ejected and suffered minor injuries, according to Dennis McGrath, a spokesman for Lemoore Naval Air Station, where the two jets were based.</p><p>Initial reports indicated the planes may have collided, but McGrath said investigators had not yet made that determination.</p><p>"They were on an air-to-air intercept training mission," he said. "In World War II they called it dogfighting. They practice overcoming the tactics of another plane for combat purposes."</p><p>Don Sundias, a spokesman for Fort Hunter Liggett, said the two jets were flying at less than 3,000 feet when the accident took place.</p><p>Fort Hunter Liggett is a 165,000-acre Army Reserve training facility in the central coast of California about 150 miles south of San Francisco.</p><p>The accident took place over a remote area away from houses or other buildings, although the crash started at least one small fire that was put out, Sundias said.</p><p>The planes were part of Strike Fighter Squadron 125, nicknamed the "Rough Riders," according to an Associated Press report.</p><p>The Lemoore station is just south of Fresno, about 100 miles northeast of where the mishap took place.</p><p>The base is a training facility for F/A-18s, and dozens of fighters rotate monthly to and from aircraft carriers offshore, the AP report said.</p><p>The F/A-18C Hornet seats a single pilot and has a top speed of nearly 1,200 mph. Other models have two seats.</p><div class="cnnStoryContrib"><p><i>CNN's Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.</i></p></div><u></u>