While military fighters require very high speeds, many civil airplanes do not.

In 1985 a military fighter crashed about 100 miles north of Phoenix, killing the pilot and closing down a highway for several hours.

"Civil defense" connoted the fire department and emergency services, not military fighters, American commanders said.

The only thing missing was a flyover by military fighters.

The government had created a special task force, a group of hardened military fighters to oppose the Tigers and the other rebel groups.

He would go into recruit training to learn how to become a military fighter.

"Playing a video game with a military fighter is a lot different than flying a mission," he said.

He was a renowned military fighter who became known as an "Afghan warrior-poet".

When military fighters were scrambled, they first flew in the wrong direction.

Controllers initially thought this was a military fighter, due to its high speed and maneuvering.