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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

A-10 'Tank Killer' goes down

Pilot ejects safely from attack jet before crash at Nellis training range

By KEITH ROGERS
REVIEW-JOURNAL
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A pilot ejected safely from an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane before it crashed Tuesday afternoon at the Nellis training range, 20 miles north of Indian Springs, Air Force officials said.

The plane, sometimes called a "warthog," or "tank killer," went down at 3:37 p.m. on the sprawling Nellis Air Force Range.

The pilot, Capt. John Dyer, was treated and released from the federal hospital at the Nellis base, according to a statement from the Air Warfare Center. Dyer is a student at the Air Force Weapons School at Nellis.

The attack jet, assigned to Nellis' 57th Wing, was on a training mission at the time of the crash, said 2nd Lt. Lori Dockendorf.

Details about the accident were sketchy Tuesday night, but Dockendorf said preliminary indications are that no other aircraft were involved. She couldn't confirm if the $10 million A-10 was destroyed.

An Air Force team responded to the crash site, and a board of officers was preparing to investigate the accident, the statement said.

On Dec. 4, 2002, a pilot was killed on the range during a training exercise when two A-10s collided in midair.

Investigators determined that the pilot who was killed, Capt. Eric Palaro, was disoriented during a maneuver to rejoin a formation and mistook another aircraft as the leader, causing the collision. Palaro was from the 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany.

Counting Tuesday's A-10 crash, there have been at least nine involving A-10s since 1981 in Southern Nevada. In all, six pilots were killed in those crashes.

Before last year's fatal midair collision, an Air Force captain suffered minor injuries on Sept. 3, 2001, after he ejected from his A-10 before it plunged into a cliff in the Virgin River Gorge, 100 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

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