Pilot Killed in Gulf Crash Identified
From Times Wire Reports
U.S. military officials identified the Navy pilot killed in a crash Friday as Lt. Bruce Joseph Donald of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Donald was the pilot of the F/A-18C Hornet strike fighter, a single-seater that crashed into the Persian Gulf, said a Navy spokesman. The jet lost contact with the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln during a routine test.
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