The lost F-117 carried the name "Something Wicked" and had previously flown 39 sorties during the Persian Gulf War's Operation Desert Storm. He was initially misidentified in press reports, as the name "Capt Ken 'Wiz' Dwelle" was painted on the aircraft's canopy. According to Zelko, he would later learn that he had been minutes away from being captured. Air Force combat search and rescue team flying in a Sikorsky MH-53 helicopter in the early hours of the next morning. Zelko was rescued approximately eight hours later by a U.S. At one point, searchers came within a few hundred meters of the ditch he was hiding in. Zelko landed around a mile from his aircraft's crash site, and an intensive search of the area was carried out by the Yugoslav soldiers, policemen, and local villagers. There, he felt the shock waves of bombs dropped by NATO B-2 bombers on targets on the outskirts of Belgrade. He quickly concealed himself in a drainage ditch that he had identified as a hole-up site while descending. Zelko landed in a field south of Ruma and around a mile south of a four-lane highway, European route E70. He reasoned the altitude would give his signal the best possible range and was also sure he would be quickly taken prisoner by Yugoslav forces on the ground and wanted to confirm he was unhurt before this happened. Zelko used his survival radio while still descending although this was contrary to his training. After his parachute deployed, he used his survival radio to issue a mayday call and was able to contact the KC-135 that had seen him shot down.
Zelko was subject to intense g-forces as the aircraft tumbled and had great difficulty in assuming the correct posture for ejecting. The explosion was large enough to be seen from a KC-135 Stratotanker flying over Bosnia. The second missile detonated nearby, its shrapnel and shockwave causing significant damage to the aircraft and causing it to tumble out of control. The first passed over him, close enough to cause buffeting, but did not detonate. He observed the two missiles punch through the low cloud cover and head straight for his aircraft. Darrell Patrick "Dale" Zelko (born 1 January 1960), an Operation Desert Storm veteran. The F-117, callsign " Vega-31", was being flown by Lt. According to Lieutenant Colonel Đorđe Aničić, who was identified in 2009 as the soldier who fired the missiles, they detected the F-117 at a range of about 23 km operating their equipment for no more than 17 seconds to avoid being locked on to by NATO anti-air suppression. local time, with a range of about 8 miles (13 km) several missiles were launched. The Army of Yugoslavia unit was equipped with a Yugoslav version of the Soviet Isayev S-125 "Neva" missile system ( NATO reporting name, SA-3 "Goa").
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Colonel (later Colonel) Zoltán Dani, downed F-117 Air Force serial number 82-0806, callsign "Vega 31". On 27 March 1999, the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Army of Yugoslavia, under the command of Lt. Some reports suggest that this second incident was also committed by the 3rd battery of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, the same SAM battery that shot down the first F-117. In 2020, an F-117A pilot, during an interview in which he also reminded all that the F-117A was "low observable, not invisible", stated that his wingman's F-117A had been damaged by a Yugoslav surface-to-air missile some time after the 27 March incident, but that it managed to return to base. Air Force in 1983, was cutting-edge equipment, and the first operational aircraft to be designed using stealth technology by comparison, the Yugoslav air defenses were considered relatively obsolete. The F-117, which entered service with the U.S.
Air Force PJs conducting search and rescue. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued by U.S. On 27 March 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav army unit (the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade, which was under the leadership of Colonel Zoltán Dani) shot down an F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft of the United States Air Force by firing a S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missile.
Mass graves: Batajnica mass graves, Rudnica mass grave, Ugljare mass grave.
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