DCS: Lion and the Sun

Happy F-14 Tomcat 50th Anniversary Celebration ------------------------------------------------------ Song: Lion and the Sun - Meteor Capt. Patrick Driscoll, the commander of the Kitty Hawk's air wing, said the radio intercept officer injured his ankle and that both crew received minor injuries from the ejection and landing. The crash was the first confirmed report of a U.S. plane going down in Iraq during the war. The crash happened two hours after takeoff. The plane had dropped some bombs, but was carrying more when it crashed, he said. Moffit said there was no enemy fire present and the plane "was not in harms way or jeopardy" at the time of the crash. The plane was from the Kitty Hawk's VF-154 squadron, which has been among Navy strike fighter groups that have flown hundreds of bombing missions over Iraq in the past two weeks. "We have a tendency to lose more aircraft to mechanical and normal operating events than we do to combat," Moffit noted. "Complacency is out biggest enemy." The video is a fictional dramatization based on a true story and real events. Voice comms was from USAF F-16 Shot Down by Serbs in 1999 incident