{"id":53324,"date":"2026-04-06T01:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/53324\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:40:57","slug":"2nd-us-air-force-combat-plane-crashes-in-persian-gulf-region-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/53324\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd US Air Force combat plane crashes in Persian Gulf region: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diyar G\u00fcldo\u011fan<\/p>\n<p>April 03, 2026\u2022Update: April 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON <\/p>\n<p>A second US Air Force combat aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Citing two US officials, The New York Times reported that the lone pilot of the A-10 Warthog was safely rescued.<\/p>\n<p>The A-10 attack plane went down near the Strait of Hormuz at around the same time that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, the officials said, per the report.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt had told CNN that President Donald Trump had been briefed on a US fighter jet shot down over Iran, later identified as an F-15E Strike Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon and US Central Command did not immediately respond to requests from Anadolu for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports citing US officials indicate that one of the F-15E crew members has been rescued and is undergoing medical treatment. <\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue efforts for the second crew member, whose status is unknown, are underway.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the F-15E is crewed by one pilot and one weapons systems officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diyar G\u00fcldo\u011fan April 03, 2026\u2022Update: April 04, 2026 WASHINGTON A second US Air Force combat aircraft crashed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[20565,34,39,7212,153],"class_list":["post-53324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-crashed","tag-iran","tag-persian-gulf","tag-plane","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116355221582298843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324","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=53324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}