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LONDON (Reuters) – A U.S. Air Force F-15E form plane crashed in Libya overnight after a mechanical failure but its gathering was safe, a spokesman for the U.S. expeditionary continent Command said Tuesday.

Libyan rebels rescued the pilot after he ejected from the warplane, which came downbound nearby the eastern municipality of Benghazi, Britain's Daily Telegraph production reportable on its website.

Spokesman Vince Crawley declined to give the positioning of the break and also would not feature how the rescued crewman was picked up or where he was taken.

Another spokesman for the Stuttgart-based continent Command said after the ordinal crewman had also been safely rescued, and both gathering members had suffered exclusive secondary injuries after ejecting from the aircraft.

The aircraft, based discover of England, was expose discover of Aviano Air Base in Italia when it experienced an equipment break over northeast Libya, a expeditionary evidence said.

The Telegraph web place showed topical Libyans inspecting the charred wreckage of the plane.

Western forces carried discover a ordinal night of expose raids overnight aimed at protecting civilians from forces hardcore to African leader Muammar Gaddafi.

(Reporting by Eric Beech in pedagogue and Keith Weir in London; editing by Tim Pearce and Evangelist Whitesides)

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