the f-18 super hornet, the f-15 strike eagle and the apache helicopter, just to name a few. and i m being very, very serious, the new air force one, that plane, as beautiful as it looks, is 30 years old. can you believe it? what can look so beautiful at 30? an airplane. i don t know, which one do we like better, folks? tell me. on every front we are going to work for the american people. nowhere in our focus and i mean this so strongly and our focus has to be so strong, but my focus has been all about jobs
the f-18 super hornet, the f-15 strike eagle, and the apache helicopter, just to name a few. [ cheers and applause ] and i m being very, very serious, the new air force one, that plane, as beautiful as it looks, is 30 years old. can you believe it? what can look so beautiful at 30? an airplane. i don t know, which one do we like better, folks? tell me. [ cheers and applause ] on every front, we are goingo work for the american people. nowhere in our focus is, and i mean this so strongly, and our focus has to be so strong, but my focus has been all about
we mention tonight s vice president shall debate earlier. happy to say that abc s martha raddatz is tonight s moderator. and when she s not hanging with biden or ryan or traveling the war zones, martha gets to cool stuff, like when she went flying with the first female fighter pilot. check it out. reporter: it is one of the most fearsome fighter jets in the sky. the f-15 strike eagle. and i could not be in more capable hands. colonel jeannie flynn leavitt is not only a decorated fighter pilot, she has broken through gender barriers, few thought possible. they said, you realize if you fly fighters, you ll be the first and there will be some attention. and i said, i don t want the attention but i want to fly fighters more than anything. reporter: more than 20 years ago when she entered a world dominated by male swagger. the plaque for the alternates is found in the ladies room. reporter: that altitude was not just in movies like top gun, pentagon brass argued male
file. let s take a closer look at the anxious hours for the u.s. military after an american f-15 strike eagle went down in libya. the pilot and weapons officers both bailed out. they re now safely out of pentagon. chris lawrence is putting together a time line for the heart stopping events. libyan state tv says the plane was shot down. the military says it was a malfunction. in either case it shows no fly definitely does not mean no risk. two fighter jets take off from italy on a strike run. but as they fly over libya, one of the f-15s malfunctions. once you can no longer fly the jet and you ve tried every procedure in your book, it s time to jump out. the two-man crew ejects and the plane crashes. the parachute is open, but they
good morning, it is 26 minutes after the hour, welcome back to american morning. we want to update you on a lot of stories. breaking news out of libya. u.s. fighter jet. one u.s. fighter jet, f-15e has crashed near the libyan city of benghazi. the two crew members ejected safely when their aircraft experienced an equipment malfunction we re learning. it was not hit by enemy fire and both crew members are safe. they re reported to only have minor injuries. the aircraft itself based out of england, still investigating, of course, the cause of the downed plane. also just in, a big setback at the crippled daiichi power plant in japan, officials are announcing a little while ago that there was actually more damage to reactors one and two than they originally thought, especially in reactor two where the tokyo power company says