{"id":49203,"date":"2026-04-02T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/49203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:57:08","slug":"ferguson-orders-half-staff-flags-for-washington-major-killed-in-iraq-spokane-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/49203\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson orders half-staff flags for Washington major killed in Iraq | Spokane News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Gov. Bob Ferguson has ordered flags at state agency facilities to be flown at half-staff Friday in honor of U.S. Air Force Maj. Ariana Savino of Covington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khq.com\/news\/airman-from-washington-idd-as-one-of-six-killed-in-kc-135-crash-in-western\/article_48b0f8bf-1537-4adf-b853-bccf31653c71.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Savino, 31, died March 12 in an incident in western Iraq while on active duty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson said that flags will remain lowered until the close of business or sunset Friday. The directive also asks state offices to notify facilities across Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Other government agencies, businesses and individuals are encouraged to take part in the tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Savino served with the 99th Air Refueling Squadron. U.S. Central Command reported she was aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker in what it described as \u201cfriendly airspace\u201d when it crashed after an unspecified incident involving another U.S. aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The second aircraft landed safely, according to U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also identified five other aviators killed in the crash:<\/p>\n<p>Maj. John \u201cAlex\u201d Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Alabama<\/p>\n<p>Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38, of Mooresville, Indiana<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30, of Wilmington, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28, of Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Gov. Bob Ferguson has ordered flags at state agency facilities to be flown at half-staff Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1519,94,18416,674,11143,9242,18418,18420,18419,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-49203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-khq","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-military-aviation","13":"tag-spokane","14":"tag-spokane-county","15":"tag-spokane-news","16":"tag-spokane-valley","17":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116337589764702668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49203","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=49203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}