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Air Force Grounds Light-Attack Aircraft Experiment After Crash

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, June 28th, 2018

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Air Force Grounds Light-Attack Aircraft Experiment After Crash

Air Force Gen. James "Mike" Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command. Photo: USAF.

The U.S. Air Force has suspended flying for its light-attack aircraft experiment while it investigates the recent fatal crash of one of the participating planes, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC) said June 28.“We haven’t figured out what happened yet,” Gen. James “Mike” Holmes told the Defense Writers Group. “Because there’s no operational mission here, we’re able to take a pause and wait until we get at least the initial indications of what happened.” The Air Force is also looking…

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