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Alaska F22 Crash Pilot Identified

Alaska F22 Crash Pilot Identified - The Air Force on Thursday identified a pilot missing after the crash of an F-22 Raptor as military officials worked to set up camps off the Denali Highway in interior Alaska in preparation for a ground search.

Capt. Jeffrey Haney is assigned to the 525th Fighter Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson spokeswoman Corinna Jones said. He is from Jackson, Mich.

Haney, who is married with two children, joined the Air Force in 2003 and has been at the Anchorage base for 4 1/2 years, Jones said.

Air Force personnel planned to search south of the highway, a 134-mile mostly gravel road that runs east from Cantwell, near the entrance to Denali National Park, to Paxson on the Richardson Highway.

"We've got a pretty big logistical operation going on right now, getting equipment, supplies and personnel up to the crash site," said John Pennell, another spokesman for the Anchorage base.

The F-22, a single-seat jet, took off Tuesday from the joint Air Force and Army base for a training run.

The aircraft and a second F-22 practiced individual "intercepts" and were nearing completion of the mission when one jet disappeared from ground radar tracking and from communications with the other aircraft at 7:40 p.m.

Searchers found the crash site Wednesday morning about 100 miles north of Anchorage and an Alaska Air National Guard helicopter was able to land with pararescuemen that afternoon.

An air search has continued, looking for a parachute or a fire started by the pilot.

The Air Force has not established whether the ejection seat was deployed.

Alaska F22 Crash Pilot Identified

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