{"id":873853,"date":"2026-04-05T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/873853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:26:22","slug":"how-a-u-s-airman-shot-down-in-iran-was-rescued-from-a-mountain-crevice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/873853\/","title":{"rendered":"How a U.S. Airman Shot Down in Iran Was Rescued From a Mountain Crevice"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rescue operation involved hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel, as well as dozens of U.S. warplanes and helicopters.<\/p>\n

After the crash landing, the colonel hiked to an elevated ridge and activated an emergency beacon, which allowed U.S. forces to locate him, two U.S. officials told Fox News. \u00a0<\/p>\n

At the same time, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it was searching the area near where the pilot’s plane came down, and Iranian officials issued a public plea for locals to find the crew member, offering a reward of $60,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Videos posted online showed locals from the area where the jet went down forming search parties to find the airman. According to the New York Times<\/a>, U.S. aircraft dropped bombs on convoys that approached the area where the airman was hiding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the airman was found, he was taken to two MC-130J aircraft that were waiting nearby to exfiltrate him out of the country. But the aircraft malfunctioned, which led to U.S. forces destroying at least one of them, a U.S. official told Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rescue operation involved hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel, as well as dozens of U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,774,2597,28423,38941,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-873853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-news-desk","12":"tag-u-s-military","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116352567570342656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}