{"id":27513,"date":"2026-03-20T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/27513\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:13:24","slug":"us-f-35-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-after-iran-combat-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/27513\/","title":{"rendered":"US F-35 forced to make emergency landing after Iran combat mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

A U.S. F-35 fighter jet was forced to make an emergency landing after flying a combat mission<\/a> over Iran<\/a>, U.S. Central Command confirmed on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The pilot, who was able to guide the aircraft to a U.S. air base in the region, is in stable condition, a command spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

CNN first reported the incident, with sources telling the outlet the aircraft was struck by an Iranian munition. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of reports that a U.S. F-35 aircraft conducted an emergency landing at a regional U.S airbase after flying a combat mission over Iran,\u201d Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n

The incident is under investigation. <\/p>\n

Prior to Thursday\u2019s incident, the U.S. had lost four manned aircraft across the month of March. <\/p>\n

Six U.S. airmen were killed on March 12<\/a> when their KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq during combat operations. <\/p>\n

On March 1, three U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets<\/a> were shot down by a Kuwaiti F\/A-18 in a friendly fire incident. All six F-15 crew members ejected and were safely recovered.<\/p>\n

A total of 13 U.S. service members have been killed during combat actions against Iran and roughly 200 wounded. <\/p>\n

While the majority of the wounded troops have since returned to duty, 10 are considered seriously injured, CENTCOM announced Monday.<\/p>\n

J.D. Simkins is Editor-in-Chief of Military Times and Defense News, and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. F-35 fighter jet was forced to make an emergency landing after flying a combat mission over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2539,2932,2933,1529,1528,2092,34,393,2540,212,343,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-27513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-circulated-air-force-times","9":"tag-circulated-army-times","10":"tag-circulated-marine-corps-times","11":"tag-circulated-military-times","12":"tag-circulated-navy-times","13":"tag-f-35","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-islamic-republic","16":"tag-military-times","17":"tag-operation-epic-fury","18":"tag-us-military","19":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116258852256916582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513","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=27513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}