Way Up North: Air system failure caused fatal Alaska F-22 crash, report says

08 September 2011

Air system failure caused fatal Alaska F-22 crash, report says

Captain Jeff Haney was the pilot of the F-22 Raptor that crashed in November near the Susitna Lodge on the Denali Highway. Haney died in the crash. He leaves behind his wife and two daughters.

Last November's fatal crash of an Air Force F-22 north of Anchorage was caused by a problem in the jet's bleed air system, according to an industry crash report cited by unnamed sources to Defense News. The system feeds air from the jet engine compressor to cockpit environmental and oxygen systems. A systems failure could have been survivable, and it's unknown why Capt. Jeff Haney of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson was unable to take actions to prevent the crash.

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