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From The Register: 

F-22 Raptor swallows pilot

Trapped for five hours in $134m beast

By Lester Haines

A hapless US Air Force pilot had to be physically cut free from the cockpit of his F-22A Raptor when the canopy resolutely refused to open, Flight International reports.

The mini-drama unfolded on 10 April at the 27th Fighter Squadron’s base at Langley AFB, Virginia, when the canopy “became stuck in the down and locked position and could not be opened manually after the pilot cycled the mechanism several times, following a pre-flight warning that the canopy was unlocked”.

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