Tail of troubled fighter

Tail of troubled fighter

NAHA, Japan - The vertical tail fin of an F-15 fighter retrieved from the East China Sea is shown to reporters at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on July 12, 2011. The fighter crashed on July 5 during a training flight over the East China Sea. Its pilot went missing.

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  • 2011/7/13 00:00:00
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