Rebel leader Younes confirmed that pro-Gadhafi gunners downed the plane but that the pilot ejected safely.

叛军领导人尤尼斯证实，亲卡扎菲的枪手击落了这架战机，但是飞行员安全地跳伞逃脱。

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Turkey also announced that it would prosecute a man accused of killing the pilot after his plane was shot downed.

土耳其还宣布，将对那名被指控在飞机被击落后将飞行员击毙的男子提起诉讼。

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Iraqi soldiers search for what they thought was a downed American pilot along the Banks of the Tigris River.

伊拉克士兵沿底格里斯河岸搜查他们认为被击落的美军飞行员。

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And in 1994, he traveled to North Korea to negotiate the release of an American helicopter pilot and the remains of his downed co-pilot.

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That edge is the main reason why no U.S. soldier has been killed by hostile aircraft since the Korean War, and no U.S. pilot has been downed by an enemy plane since the Vietnam War.

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Jackson has previously led missions that resulted in the release of a downed U.S. Navy pilot from Syria in 1984, the repatriation of Americans held in Iraq before the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and in the return of three captured U.S. soldiers from Yugoslavia during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.

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