See here. That link may or may not stay active as the story develops. The pilot reportedly ejected, but the linked story says he’s believed dead. Other sources are saying it looks like the plane was taking off from a nearby US military base.
Reuters is now reporting it as a crash landing (my words).
The pilot ejected before the crash and had been taken to hospital for treatment of minor injuries, a U.S. military spokesman said.
"UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq has left large gaps in its arms declaration, is blocking private interviews with scientists and is balking at U-2 surveillance flights over the whole country, U.N. weapons inspectors are expected to say on Monday.
Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix has given a preview of what he will tell the U.N. Security Council in statements since he left Baghdad last weekend, saying that Iraq vowed it had no more documents on its past weapons of mass destruction programs than it submitted to the United Nations (news - web sites) on Dec. 7.
Blix told reporters that when questions arose about data concerning anthrax, the deadly VX nerve gas or Scud missiles, the Iraqis “simply say there is nothing left of this, and there is no evidence that we can view, there are no more documents.”
He said he had not been given the go-head to interview Iraqi scientists in private, as the Security Council has authorized, with Iraq sending as many as five minders to every inspector.
Blix also has had difficulties getting assurances that Iraq won’t shoot at American U-2 spy planes, loaned to the United Nations to survey inspection sites, when they are in the U.S.-British no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq."
Umm… are U-2 Spy Planes being sent aloft to some 16 miles high altitude to see what (Evil-Axis of course) country can shoot them down?
This is bad. I wasn’t alive 40 years ago when Kruschev banged his shoe on the podium.