{"id":4645537,"date":"2026-07-09T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=4645537"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:40:23","slug":"el-dorado-canyon-1986-libya-raid-f-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/el-dorado-canyon-1986-libya-raid-f-111\/","title":{"rendered":"Le canyon d&#039;El Dorado : le raid de 18 heures sur Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><\/p>\r\n<p>To drop bombs on Tripoli for twelve minutes, the U.S. Air Force flew for thirteen hours. Not because the target was far in a straight line \u2014 it was a routine Mediterranean hop from bases in England \u2014 but because almost every ally in between refused to let the aircraft cross their airspace. So on the night of 14 April 1986, two dozen F-111s turned west, flew out into the Atlantic, and took the long way round an entire continent to reach Colonel Gaddafi.<\/p>\r\n<p>Operation El Dorado Canyon was America\u2019s answer to a terrorist bombing in Berlin \u2014 and one of the longest combat missions ever flown up to that point.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f5f5f5; padding: 20px 24px; margin: 24px 0; border-radius: 8px;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; color: #333;\">Quick Facts<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Operation<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #333;\">El Dorado Canyon, the U.S. air strike on Libya<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Night of<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #333;\">14\u201315 April 1986<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Strike force<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #333;\">24 F-111Fs from RAF Lakenheath and 5 EF-111A jammers from Upper Heyford, with Navy A-6s from USS America and USS Coral Sea<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>The detour<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #333;\">France, Spain and Italy denied overflight; the F-111s routed around Iberia, roughly 10,000 km round trip with repeated refuelling<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Targets<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #333;\">Bab al-Azizia barracks and Tripoli sites; Benina airfield and the Jamahiriyah barracks at Benghazi<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; color: #666; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\"><strong>Loss<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #333;\">One F-111F, callsign Karma 52; its crew, Capts. Fernando Ribas-Dominicci and Paul Lorence, were killed<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Everyone Said No<\/h2>\r\n<p>The politics were almost as difficult as the flying. In the spring of 1986 much of Europe wanted no part of an American strike on Libya, and France, Spain and Italy all refused permission for the bombers to cross their territory. That single diplomatic fact reshaped the entire mission: instead of a short run across the Mediterranean, the Lakenheath F-111s had to fly west out of England, down the Atlantic, around the Iberian Peninsula, and through the Strait of Gibraltar before turning east for Libya.<\/p>\r\n<p>The U.S. Navy carried the other half of the raid from two carriers already in the Mediterranean, striking Benghazi while the Air Force hit Tripoli.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img data-opt-id=1714487535  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/grumman-a-6-intruder-carrier.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The Navy\u2019s half of the raid: A-6 Intruders from USS America and USS Coral Sea struck Benghazi while the Air Force hit Tripoli. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Thirteen Hours for Twelve Minutes<\/h2>\r\n<p>The outbound leg alone demanded four aerial refuellings from a fleet of KC-10 and KC-135 tankers, in radio silence, at night. Ahead of the bombers, EF-111 Raven jammers blinded Libyan radar. When the F-111s finally arrived over Tripoli they had perhaps twelve minutes to find their targets, release, and turn for the long haul home. Precision was punishing at that range and after that long in the cockpit, and not every bomb hit cleanly.<\/p>\r\n<p>President Reagan went on television the same night to explain why he had ordered it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #1565c0; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\"><a style=\"flex-shrink: 0;\" href=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/ronald-reagan-oval-office-1986.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-opt-id=1327222498  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"width: 96px; height: 96px; border-radius: 50%; object-fit: cover; object-position: top; display: block; border: 2px solid #ddd;\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/ronald-reagan-oval-office-1986.jpg\" alt=\"President Ronald Reagan\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><\/a>\r\n<div><em>\u201cHe counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>President Ronald Reagan<\/strong> \u2014 Address to the Nation, 14 April 1986<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjYMVSA6xM8\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Reagan\u2019s full address to the nation on the night of the raid.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Karma 52<\/h2>\r\n<p>The mission was not free. One F-111F, callsign Karma 52, went down over the Gulf of Sidra; its two-man crew, Captains Fernando Ribas-Dominicci and Paul Lorence, were killed. They were the only American losses of the operation, a reminder that behind the political theatre were aircrew flying a thirteen-hour night mission into defended airspace with no room for error.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgqDT2mlENo\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>A documentary account of the planning and execution of the Libya raid.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">What It Signalled<\/h2>\r\n<p>El Dorado Canyon was, in effect, the first time an American president used air power on live television to answer an act of terrorism, and Reagan framed it in exactly those terms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #5C91FF; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cToday we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>President Ronald Reagan<\/strong> \u2014 Address to the Nation, 14 April 1986<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Its material effect on Gaddafi was debatable; he survived, and Libyan-sponsored terror did not stop overnight. But as a demonstration of reach \u2014 of a willingness to fly around a continent to put bombs on a specific compound \u2014 it was unmistakable, and it made the F-111, an aircraft once written off as a costly failure, into a symbol of American long-range strike.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wn2cjBcnkxE\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>A closer analysis of the raid and the twelve minutes over Libya.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: The Aviationist; U.S. Air Force Historical Support Division; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mf-faq -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}.mf-faq-answer a{color:#5C91FF}<\/style>\r\n<h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2>\r\n<details class=\"mf-faq-item\">\r\n<summary>What was Operation El Dorado Canyon?<\/summary>\r\n<div class=\"mf-faq-answer\">\r\n<p>El Dorado Canyon was the US air strike on Libya on the night of 14\u201315 April 1986, ordered by President Reagan after a terrorist bombing in Berlin. 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