The new Pentagon IG report, the result of the first major crash investigation review conducted by the IG's office since the mid-1990s and published Monday, says that the Air Force's conclusions are at times contradictory, incomplete or "not supported by the facts." WATCH Exclusive: Family Demands Truth in Air Force F-22 Pilot's Death But those jets are worth a lot of money," she said then.
"To them, Jeff was a number, it feels like sometimes. In the "Nightline" report, Jennifer Haney said in an exclusive interview that by blaming her brother rather than the $420 million plane, the Air Force showed it was more interested in protecting its $79 billion F-22 program than its airmen.
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Perhaps he was struggling to activate the manual emergency oxygen back-up system, the service said. Haney was killed during a routine training mission in Alaska shortly after his plane malfunctioned and his oxygen system shut down completely.Īfter investigating the incident for more than a year, the Air Force released a crash report in December 2011 that said that while Haney likely suffered a "sense similar to suffocation" before he died, he was still to blame for the crash because he was too distracted to fly the plane properly. The Haney crash was the centerpiece of an ABC News' "Nightline" investigation that aired May 2, 2012.
"In the end, I really hope Jeff's name will be cleared," she said.