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Tuesday March 27 1:18 PM ET
Body Found Near Site of Missing F-15

  U.S. Fighter Jets Missing over Scottish Highlands - (KHOU, Houston)
  Search For Missing Planes Continues In Scotland - (Reuters)


By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) - Search teams have spotted wreckage and a body in the Scottish
Highlands where two U.S. F-15 jets were reported missing, the Royal Air Force
said Tuesday.

The wreckage, identified as an F-15, was found amid blinding snow near the
summit of the 4,296-foot Ben Macdhui, the tallest peak in the Cairngorm
mountains.

``Rescuers searching for two missing American aircraft in the Cairngorms have
discovered a body, believed to be one of the missing pilots,'' the Royal Air
Force said.

``The body was found in the vicinity of an aircraft wreck on the eastern side
of Ben Macdhui which has been confirmed as the remains of an F-15,'' the
statement said.

The U.S. Air Force at Lakenheath identified the missing men as Lt. Col.
Kenneth Hyvonen and Capt. Kirk Jones. There was no immediate indication of
their ages or home states.

The search was being conducted by up to 250 RAF members, police and civilian
personnel, including three RAF mountain rescue teams. The RAF said earlier
the search was being hampered by ``whiteout'' snows and 46 mph winds.

The aircraft - each with one pilot on board - disappeared 45 minutes after
taking off for a training mission Monday from Lakenheath, 75 miles northeast
of London.

The F-15s disappearance and a crash Monday of a U.S. Army reconnaissance
plane in Germany that killed two pilots are the latest in a string of tragic
military mishaps in recent weeks.

In Germany, a team of experts from the U.S. Army Safety Center at Fort
Rucker, Ala. launched an investigation Tuesday into the crash of the RC-12, a
twin-engine propeller aircraft used to detect, identify and locate enemy
radar and electronic communications.

The plane crashed in a forest about eight miles from Nuremberg, killing the
two pilots on board, as it was returning to base in Wiesbaden, Army
spokeswoman Hilde Patton said from 5th Corps headquarters at Heidelberg.

German and American authorities at the scene were attempting to recover the
pilots' remains from the crash scene, Patton said.

There was no initial indication of what caused the crash, Patton said. The
pilots - assigned to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade - were
identified as George A. Graves, 44, and Lance Hill, 43, both chief warrant
officers. Hill was a native of Paradise, Calif., while Graves' hometown was
not immediately known.

It is unusual for more than one U.S. military plane to crash on the same day,
but fatal training accidents are by no means rare. On March 3 an Army C-23
Sherpa crashed in Georgia, killing all 21 people on board. On March 12, five
American servicemen and one New Zealand army officer were killed when a U.S.
Navy (news - web sites) F/A-18 mistakenly hit them with bombs during training
in Kuwait.

On Feb. 12, two Army Black Hawk helicopters collided during a nighttime
training session in Hawaii on Feb. 12, killing six soldiers.

Statistics show that, overall, U.S. military aviation has become safer in
recent years. For the fiscal year ended last Sept. 30, the military aviation
accident rate was 1.23 per 100,000 flight hours - the lowest ever recorded.
Fifty-eight service members were killed in aviation accidents that year,
including one of the worst in years - a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey (news - web
sites) crash last April that killed all 19 Marines aboard.




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