A man described as a military aviation legend died Saturday of
congestive heart failure. Col. Joseph Rogers (USAF, Ret.) died at
his California home. He was 81.
It's thought to be the highest-altitude mountain rescue in
history -- a Pakistani Army Aerospatial SA-315B Llama climbed to
approximately 19,500 feet to rescue Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar
from a cliff on Nanga Parbat.
The failure of one of an F-15 Eagle's horizontal stabilators
caused its pilot to lose control of his aircraft and crash during a
training mission March 25, an Air Combat Command Investigation
Board report on Aug. 9.
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