{"id":343334,"date":"2026-03-13T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/343334\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:04:12","slug":"us-carrying-out-rescue-effort-after-military-aeroplane-crashes-in-iraq-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/343334\/","title":{"rendered":"US carrying out rescue effort after military aeroplane crashes in Iraq \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A \u200cUS military refuelling aircraft crashed in western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/iraq\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/iraq\/\">Iraq<\/a> on \u200cThursday in an incident US Central Command said involved \u200banother aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\">United States<\/a> has \u200bsent a large number of aircraft into the \u2060Middle East to take part in \u200coperations \u200cagainst \u200bIran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement, US Central Command said it was \u2060carrying out rescue \u200befforts after the US \u200bKC-135 refuelling aeroplane went down. The \u200csecond aircraft landed safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe \u200bincident occurred in friendly airspace during \u2060Operation Epic Fury, and \u2060rescue \u200befforts are ongoing,\u201d the statement said, using the name of the US operation against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/iran\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The statement did not provide details on the fate of the KC-135\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the other aircraft involved \u200bin the incident was also a KC-135 and the one that crashed \u200bhad six service members on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The KC-135, built by Boeing in the 1950s and \u200cearly \u20601960s, has served as the backbone of the US military\u2019s air refueling fleet and is critical to allow aircraft to carry out missions without having to land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The KC-135 Stratotanker \u201cprovides the core aerial refuelling capability for the United States Air Force and has excelled in this role for more than 60 years\u201d, according to a US Air Force webpage. It also provides refuelling for US Navy and Marine aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Since the US and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\">Israel<\/a> started carrying out strikes against Iran on February 28, \u200cseven US \u2060troops have been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Reuters reported on Tuesday that as many as \u200c150 US troops had been wounded in the \u200bUS-Israeli war on Iran. \u2013 Reuters and agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u200cUS military refuelling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on \u200cThursday in an incident US Central Command said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,11829,12693,150432,43,40,38,41,39,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-343334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}