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Hunter Down it he USA

Posted by B Darnell on Tue Jul 22, 2003 03:27:24 PM

My Sypathies to the family...
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PITTSTON, Pa. (AP) _ A vintage fighter jet crashed Tuesday morning in a wooded area about a mile from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, killing the pilot, authorities said.

The aircraft, a privately owned Hawker-Hunter, went down in Pittston Township shortly after taking off from the airport at about 9 a.m., said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters.

No one on the ground was hurt, Peters said. A runway at the airport was closed while the crash was investigated.

The British-made jet, of a type made predominantly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was registered to an owner in Augusta, N.J., Peters said.


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