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Iraq: a USAF Predator UAV fell headlong

Balad, Iraq - Reasons for what happened are still unknown but US investigators would be already working

US Air Force lost one of its General Atomics RQ-1 Predator remote-controlled airplanes in Iraq on last March 26. The aircraft was performing a reconnaissance mission over Balad when operators on the ground lost control and the airplane fell headlong. According to what revealed by US military authorities, a technical investigation aimed to understand the reasons of what occurred would have been already...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 117232
Rome, Italy, 03/29/2005 13:42
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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