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LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. -- Air Combat Command released an accident investigation board report today regarding the E-11A crash that occurred January 27, 2020, during which two pilots were fatally injured. The E-11A crashed in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, following a catastrophic engine failure. Both pilots, Lt. Col. Paul K. Voss, 46, and Capt. Ryan S. Phaneuf, 30, were assigned to the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, and were conducting a com...

Deadly U.S. Air Force E-11A Crash in Afghanistan Last Year Caused by Pilot Error Leading To Dual Engine Shutdown Deadly U.S. Air Force E-11A Crash in Afghanistan Last Year Caused by Pilot Error Leading To Dual Engine Shutdown Fatal USAF E-11A crash caused by engine failure and subsequent aircrew mistake. On Jan. 27, 2020, a U.S. Air Force’s E-11A, serial 11-9358, crash landed in a field in Ghanzi Province, Afghanistan. The aircraft was one of the four E-11A (Bombardier Global 6000 advanced ul...

defenceWeb Written by RAF - Chinooks from 1310 flight on Op NEWCOMBE recently visited the Hombori Mountains. An RAF Chinook has delivered heavy equipment to extend French and Malian forces’ operational range as part of Op Barkhane, the French counter insurgency operation in the West African Sahel region. The recent operation saw a Chinook of 1310 Flight lift a large Air-portable Fuel Container to a Forward Operating Base to enable ground and air recces to operate at a greater distance from ...

By CHAD GARLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 20, 2021 Army veteran Nicholas Giovannelli is suing to stop several companies from “exploiting his image for profit” after he found them selling posters featuring photos of him taken in Afghanistan many years ago. Giovannelli deployed twice and was medically discharged five years ago after suffering a traumatic brain injury and other wounds, his lawyer Craig D. Tobin said during a video press conference last week to announce the Chica...

The Taliban has called on President-elect Joe Biden to honor a U.S. agreement to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan by May in order to secure intra-Afghan peace talks and end the two-decade-long war.

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Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The Forward Operating Base of the Nigerian Navy in Igbokoda, headquarters of the Ilaje Local Government of Ondo State, has arrested 24 suspects with 100,000 litres of illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, in the Ondo/Lagos coastal area. It was gathered that the patrol team of the naval base intercepted six boats, which were conveying the suspects and the product. The Commanding Officer of the naval base, Navy Captain Shaibu Ahmed...

James Sowole in Akure The Nigeria Navy said its patrol team of the Operation Base (FOB), Igbokoda, Ondo State, has intercepted six boats loaded with over 100,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil, popularly known as diesel along Ondo/Lagos coastal axis. The Navy said the 24 suspected oil thieves conveying the diesel were nabbed at Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area. The Commanding Officer of the FOB, Navy Captain Shaibu Mohammed Ahmed, who paraded the suspects, said some of the boats seized by th...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Twenty-four persons suspected to be involved in bunkering have been arrested in the riverine area of Ondo State. The suspects who were nabbed by the Forward Operating Base, FOB, of the Nigerian Navy in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of the state were caught with over 100,000 litres of Automotive Gas Oil, AGO, commonly known as diesel. DAILY POST gathered that the operatives of the Nigerian Navy intercepted six boats used to transport the product along Ondo/La...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Police Command in Osun State said it arrested three suspected robbers who hijacked two articulated vehicles and robbed the occupants along Osu-Ile Ife expressway in Osun. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olawale Olokode made this known in a statement on Sunday, NAN reports. Olokode said that the suspects were arrested on Thursday at about 4.a.m by a patrol team of the Joint Task Force. “On Jan. 14, at about 4 a.m, a suspected gang, fully armed with guns an...