Air Force Captain Will Be Buried At Air Force Academy

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) -- An Air Force captain from Colorado Springs who was killed in a plane crash in Africa will be buried at the Air Force Academy.

Thirty-year-old Ryan Hall was one of four airmen killed Feb. 18 when their U-28 crashed near Djibouti, Africa.

Hall's funeral will be Monday at the Cadet Chapel. Burial will follow at the academy cemetery.

Hall was a pilot with more than 1,300 combat flight hours. He was assigned to a special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field, Fla.

The plane was returning from an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission for the war in Afghanistan.

Also killed were 29-year-old Capt. Nicholas S. Whitlock of Newnan, Ga., 26-year-old 1st Lt. Justin J. Wilkens of Bend, Ore., and 26-year-old Senior Airman Julian S. Scholten of Upper Marlboro, Md.

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