Navy finds crack in F-14 wing section

The U.S. Navy discovered a crack in the center wing section of an F-14 Tomcat fighter and engineers are trying to determine if it is an anomaly or the sign of a larger problem in the fleet of the aging planes. "It is currently under investigation," a Navy spokesman told The DAILY. "A crack was...

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