06 FEB

How an Air Force pilot landed a damaged A-10 Warthog using just ‘cranks and cables’ after an Iraq War combat mission

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DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. (AFNS) — Maj. Kim Campbell, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot here, shared her story with Women’s History Month luncheon guests March 15, 2010, about a mission in which her A-10 was hit by enemy fire over Baghdad.

While deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, then-Capt. Campbell and her flight lead were flying over downtown Baghdad during a close-air-support mission April 7, 2003.

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