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December 25, 2000

aircraft.--Stephen V Cole

The first prototype of the Northrop Grumman Firescout vertical takeoff unmanned recon aircraft crashed during tests in early November. The cause seems to have been a faulty radar altimeter which reported the plane was on the ground when it was still in the air.--Stephen V