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...American military officials at Italy's Aviano airbase admit that the plane, an EA-6B Prowler, was flying "well below the approved minimum altitude" when it clipped the cable car wire, sending a gondola crashing to the ground. But they reject Italian claims that the plane was six miles off its assigned flight path. Flight recorder data has been handed over to Italian investigators but the U.S. is clearly conceding at least some responsibility for the tragedy...
...soldiers had been detained by the Croats. Although there was no immediate Allied military response to the attacks, French General Bernard Janvier, head of U.N. troops in the former Yugoslavia, pledged air support to U.N. peacekeepers who were coming under fire. A pair of U.S. Navy EA-6B warplanes demonstrated the allies' resolve at dusk on Friday when they unleashed a pair of missiles at a Serb missile battery near Knin...
...Marine AH-1W SuperCobra helicopter gunships, bristling with missiles, cannon and machine guns, and a pair of single-pilot Marine AV-8B Harrier jump jets. These six aircraft were backed up by identical sets of replacement helicopters and jump jets-none was needed-as well as two Navy EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare planes, two Marine F/A-18D Hornets to provide air cover, and a pair of tank-killing Air Force A-10 Warthogs. The entire aerial armada of roughly 40 planes was choreographed from above by a nato awacs radar plane. "We had the whole shooting match up there," said...
Male pilots were worried that women would be in cockpits before they were ready. But their fears were assuaged in December, when Lieut. Shannon Workman, an EA-6B Prowler pilot, was sent ashore because she had trouble landing her radar-jamming jet. (A male pilot was sent home for the same reason.) Female aviators were relieved as well. "Nobody wants lives on the carrier sacrificed on the altar of political correctness," said Lieut. Commander Janet Marnane, an F-14 radar intercept officer...
Dressed in a dark blue jacket with a blue andyellow striped tie, Lee sat on the front bench ofcourtroom 6B for about 45 minutes before theproceeding began...