{"id":1369415,"date":"2026-03-13T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-us-has-confirmed-the-death-of-the-crew-of-a-kc-135-aircraft-after-a-crash-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:14:15","slug":"the-us-has-confirmed-the-death-of-the-crew-of-a-kc-135-aircraft-after-a-crash-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-us-has-confirmed-the-death-of-the-crew-of-a-kc-135-aircraft-after-a-crash-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"The US has confirmed the death of the crew of a KC-135 aircraft after a crash in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

All<\/span> six<\/span> crew<\/span> members<\/span> of a US<\/span> KC-<\/span> 135<\/span> tanker<\/span> plane<\/span> were killed<\/span> in<\/span> a crash<\/span> in<\/span> western<\/span> Iraq.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This<\/span> was<\/span> reported by<\/span><\/a> the<\/span> US<\/span> Central<\/span> Command<\/span> (<\/span> CENTCOM)<\/span> on<\/span> the social network<\/span> X.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The<\/span> report<\/span> states<\/span> that<\/span> the<\/span> plane<\/span> crashed<\/span> while<\/span> flying<\/span> over<\/span> friendly<\/span> airspace<\/span> .<\/span>\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n

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“<\/span> All<\/span> six<\/span> crew<\/span> members<\/span> of a US<\/span> KC-<\/span> 135<\/span> tanker<\/span> aircraft<\/span> that<\/span> crashed<\/span> in<\/span> western<\/span> Iraq<\/span> have been confirmed<\/span> dead<\/span> ,”<\/span> CENTCOM<\/span> said<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n

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According<\/span> to<\/span> the military,<\/span> the incident<\/span> occurred<\/span> while<\/span> performing<\/span> tasks<\/span> as<\/span> part of<\/span> Operation<\/span> Epic<\/span> Fury<\/span> .<\/span> The<\/span> causes<\/span> of the accident<\/span> are currently<\/span> being investigated<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was previously reported that Iran carried out a drone attack on a French military base in Makhmur, Iraq, on Thursday, March 12.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As a reminder, a private plane crashed during takeoff at Bangor Airport in Maine, USA. The incident occurred in a severe snowstorm, with 8 people on board.<\/a><\/p>\n

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All six crew members of a US KC- 135 tanker plane were killed in a crash in western Iraq. This was reported by the US Central Command ( CENTCOM) on the social network X. The report states that the plane crashed while flying over friendly airspace .\u200b “ All six crew members of a US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1369410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1369415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}