{"id":16784,"date":"2026-03-12T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/16784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:14:06","slug":"u-s-military-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-while-supporting-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/16784\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military refueling plane crashes in Iraq while supporting Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/KH6PNUEZ2K63ZWSGEKYH7FRLKI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>]The seal for the U.S. Central Command is displayed on Feb. 6, 2017, at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh, File) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">WASHINGTON \u2014 An American military refueling plane went down in Iraq and rescue efforts were underway, U.S. Central Command said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">The KC-135 aircraft was part of the operation against Iran, but the crash was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire, the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said that two aircraft were involved and that one landed safely and the other went down in western Iraq. It described the latter as \u201ca loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a developing situation, said the other plane involved also was a KC-135 tanker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">\u201cMore information will be made available as the situation develops,\u201d Central Command said in a statement. \u201cWe ask for continued patience to gather additional details and provide clarity for the families of service members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">The tanker is the fourth publicly acknowledged aircraft to crash as part of the U.S. military\u2019s operations against Iran. Last week, the military confirmed that three American fighter jets were mistakenly downed by friendly Kuwaiti fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">All six crew members safely ejected from the F-15E Strike Eagles and were in stable condition after being recovered, the U.S. said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sans-serif\">Seven American troops have been killed in combat during the Iran war so far. About 140 U.S. service members have been wounded, including eight severely, the Pentagon said earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"]The seal for the U.S. Central Command is displayed on Feb. 6, 2017, at MacDill Air Force Base,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8738,34,8739,8740,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-16784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-crest","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-logo","11":"tag-seal","12":"tag-us-central-command"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116218749332440712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}