Luke Air Force Base

A B-1B bomber made an emergency landing without incident Tuesday at Luke Air Force Base because of electrical problems on a training flight, officials said.

Robert Davis spent a significant part of the last six weeks standing by himself in the middle of Camelback Ranch. Every now and then, the security guard at the Dodgers' spring training complex would tell overzealous autograph seekers that they had to stand behind the ropes along the dirt paths leading from the clubhouse to the practice fields. Sometimes he made small talk with other workers. But interspaced in these countless hours of tedium were memories of a lifetime.

Two airmen were killed Monday when an Air Force jet crashed on a bombing range near Gila Bend in southwestern Arizona, a spokeswoman for the service said. The F-5 fighter was on a routine training mission, said Luisa Baily, Luke Air Force Base deputy chief of public affairs. She said the cause of the crash was under investigation.

The pilot of an F-16C fighter jet that crashed in a rugged area of western Arizona was killed when his plane went down, Air Force officials confirmed. The student pilot, whose identity was not released, was practicing air-to-air combat with another F-16 from Luke Air Force Base about noon Friday when his plane crashed, base spokeswoman Mary Jo May said. Aircraft from the Air Force, Marines, Civil Air Patrol and Arizona Department of Public Safety spent hours trying to find the wreckage, which was spotted in a remote area about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.

The pilot of an F-16C fighter jet that crashed in a rugged area of western Arizona was killed when his plane went down, Air Force officials confirmed. The student pilot, whose identity was not released, was practicing air-to-air combat with another F-16 from Luke Air Force Base about noon Friday when his plane crashed, base spokeswoman Mary Jo May said. Aircraft from the Air Force, Marines, Civil Air Patrol and Arizona Department of Public Safety spent hours trying to find the wreckage, which was spotted in a remote area about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix.

An investigation into a rash of crashes at the nation's largest F-16 base has led to the discovery of engine cracks in 17 of the jet fighters, the Air Force said Friday. Cracks up to an inch long were found in the jets' Pratt & Whitney 220 engines, Luke Air Force Base spokeswoman Mary Jo May said. About 75% of the jets have been inspected so far at Luke, which has 190 of the nation's roughly 400 F-16s. "If we find cracks, those engines will not be flown anymore.

Robert Davis spent a significant part of the last six weeks standing by himself in the middle of Camelback Ranch. Every now and then, the security guard at the Dodgers' spring training complex would tell overzealous autograph seekers that they had to stand behind the ropes along the dirt paths leading from the clubhouse to the practice fields. Sometimes he made small talk with other workers. But interspaced in these countless hours of tedium were memories of a lifetime.

Two F-15A jet fighters on training missions in southern Arizona crashed, killing one pilot and injuring another, a spokesman at Luke Air Force Base said Saturday. He said that both crashes, which occurred Friday, were under investigation.

An Air Force enlisted woman was acquitted of selling classified information to an Air Force undercover investigator posing as a representative of a major defense contractor. A seven-member board of officers returned its verdict in the court-martial at Luke Air Force Base at Glendale, Ariz., of Senior Airman Paula Wilderman, 22. Wilderman, arrested July 12, 1984, could have faced a dishonorable discharge and up to 18 years in jail if convicted.

An F-16 fighter crashed Friday during a training mission west of Phoenix, the fifth warplane out of Luke Air Force Base to go down since October, military officials said. The single-seat F-16 crashed about 22 miles southwest of the base. The pilot ejected safely and was taken to the base hospital for examination, said base spokeswoman Mary Jo May. The pilot's identity was not released.

An investigation into a rash of crashes at the nation's largest F-16 base has led to the discovery of engine cracks in 17 of the jet fighters, the Air Force said Friday. Cracks up to an inch long were found in the jets' Pratt & Whitney 220 engines, Luke Air Force Base spokeswoman Mary Jo May said. About 75% of the jets have been inspected so far at Luke, which has 190 of the nation's roughly 400 F-16s. "If we find cracks, those engines will not be flown anymore.

A B-1B bomber made an emergency landing without incident Tuesday at Luke Air Force Base because of electrical problems on a training flight, officials said.

Two airmen were killed Monday when an Air Force jet crashed on a bombing range near Gila Bend in southwestern Arizona, a spokeswoman for the service said. The F-5 fighter was on a routine training mission, said Luisa Baily, Luke Air Force Base deputy chief of public affairs. She said the cause of the crash was under investigation.

Three teen-agers living on Luke Air Force Base were detained, base officials said, and a source said ballistic tests linked them to the August killing of six monks and three others at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix. Slugs recovered at the temple murder scene were matched with slugs test-fired from a .22-caliber rifle owned by one of the teen-agers, said the source, who is close to the investigation.

Radar scopes in the control tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport went dark for two hours Thursday at the height of morning air traffic, delaying 100 flights for up to 90 minutes, officials said. All radar scopes in the main tower went on the blink at about 9 a.m., leaving controllers to rely on antiquated techniques for guiding planes during a period when Sky Harbor handles an average of 104 takeoffs and landings, airport spokesman Rick Martinez said.