Details of Search for Pilot Divulged
Responding to U.S. reports that a missing American pilot from the Gulf War may have survived the crash of his aircraft and been detained by the Iraqis, Baghdad divulged details of a 1995 search of a crash site in its western desert carried out by the U.S. military and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The team found part of the wreckage of Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher’s aircraft and reported finding his flight suit along with “evidence the pilot was killed,” the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said without elaboration.
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