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Mr. Lafont made a harrowing escape to answer General de Gaulle’s call for a crusade against Germany.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is investigating a combination of pilot error and mechanical failure as possible causes for the crash of a classified U.S. drone in Iran and does not believe Iran brought down the plane, according to two U.S. government officials. The unmanned RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which had been on a sensitive CIA surveillance mission over Iran, crashed and was ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — A U.S. Air Force investigation team has blamed pilot error for a deadly F-22 Raptor crash last year in Alaska. A report on the investigation said Capt. Jeffrey Haney failed to correct his diving aircraft because he was likely focused on restoring airflow to his oxygen mask. That delayed his recognition of the aircraft’s altitude and the corrective action necessary to right the ...

A U.S. Air Force investigation team has blamed pilot error for a deadly F-22 Raptor crash last year in Alaska.

FX will shoot a pilot for a new drama series about KGB agents posing as travel agents who live in Washington during the Reagan administration. “The Americans” was created by Joe Weisberg, who worked at the CIA for about three and a half years, after which he wrote the novel “An Ordinary Spy.” These days Weisberg writes for TV; his credits include TNT’s “Falling Skies” and FX’s “Damages.” Read ...

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - FX has ordered the drama pilot "The Americans" about two KGB spies posing as -- you guessed it -- in suburban Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s. The series, created by former CIA employee Joe Weisberg, follows spies Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, who have an arranged marriage and two children who know nothing of their secret. As their relationship becomes more genuine ...

The Air Force will award a Silver Star posthumously to Francis Gary Powers, the pilot whose spy plane was shot down in 1960 over the Soviet Union in a defining moment of the Cold War.

The Air Force swears that it's $377 million fighter jet isn't a suffocating death trap. Now an internal study into the death of a "top" pilot last year found that the oxygen systems in his F-22 failed -- but still blamed the pilot for his own fatal crash. That makes the F-22 a great stealth fighter, provided you don't need to breathe in the cockpit.

The U.S. Air Force is blaming an F-22 fighter pilot for the crash that cost his life, even though the plane -- one of a fleet plagued by oxygen system problems and never flown in combat -- malfunctioned, causing "severe restrictive breathing" and basically suffocating him as his jet flipped over and slammed into the ground in the Alaskan wilderness.

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