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KC-135 down over Iraq edit: 4 dead 2 missing
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:48 pm
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced the loss of a KC-135 "Stratotanker" over Iraq after an incident with another aircraft that landed safely. Rescue efforts are ongoing. CENTCOM states this was not due to friendly or hostile fire.
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced the deaths of four service members following the crash of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 "Stratotanker" yesterday over western Iraq. Search & rescue operations are still underway for two additional missing crew members.
This post was edited on 3/13/26 at 6:25 am
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Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:49 pm to LSURoss
12 days of constant high intensity combat operations will wear on even the best trained crews.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:49 pm to LSURoss
So maybe a midair collision while refueling?
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:49 pm to LSURoss
Sounds like contact during refeling.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:52 pm to TBoy
quote:Probably not collision, as you wish, but contact damage while trying to connect.
So maybe a midair collision while refueling?
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:53 pm to Napoleon
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Sounds like contact during refeling
I wonder what it collided with. Pretty wild that the other (presumably smaller) craft was able to land safely.
Prayers for all aboard. Hopefully they survived.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:55 pm to AlterEd
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Prayers for all aboard. Hopefully they survived.
It’s not like these guys can eject. I don’t even know if they wear parachutes. Hopefully it was a somewhat controlled crash landing.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:55 pm to LSURoss
Not looking good
Prayers to the people on board
Prayers to the people on board
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:55 pm to BOHICAMAN
We can hope.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:56 pm to AlterEd
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wonder what it collided with. Pretty wild that the other (presumably smaller) craft was able to land safely.
Im thinking about a foo-fighter
Dare I say. Aliens?????
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:56 pm to Diamondawg
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Probably not collision, as you wish, but contact damage while trying to connect.
When two moving things make inappropriate contact, that is a "collision."
When one of the two things is stationary, that is an "allision."
Since both airships were flying, contacting one another in a manner that is unintended would be a "collision."
Your comment, "Probably not collision" "but contact damage" makes no sense.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:57 pm to TBoy
We don’t care. This isn’t a spelling class.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:58 pm to Diamondawg
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but contact damage while trying to connect.
This happens when I drink too much and the wife and I attempt sex
Posted on 3/12/26 at 4:59 pm to TBoy
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So maybe a midair collision while refueling?
Probably not a collision but an entanglement. It’s a way more complex dance than people understand.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 5:01 pm to BOHICAMAN
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It’s not like these guys can eject. I don’t even know if they wear parachutes.
I don't know anything about these tanker jets. Is there really no means to eject or jump?
Posted on 3/12/26 at 5:01 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Nobody has dared say it yet, but you thinking it.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 5:02 pm to deltaland
Unless it caught fire while refueling, this makes me think this wasn’t the boom involved but maybe another plane in the formation hit it or something?
The Kc-135 would have been the larger airplane so more mass, you’d think if anything the smaller plane would have been damaged and not able to land.
Terrible though that’s not a small crew. Best case it was likely a crash landing
The Kc-135 would have been the larger airplane so more mass, you’d think if anything the smaller plane would have been damaged and not able to land.
Terrible though that’s not a small crew. Best case it was likely a crash landing
Posted on 3/12/26 at 5:02 pm to TBoy
They cannot bail out nor eject.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 5:02 pm to TBoy
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Is there really no means to eject or jump?
There’s definitely no ejection seats. It’s just a modified Boeing airliner. I’m not sure if they wear chutes or not but it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t.
Posted on 3/12/26 at 5:03 pm to td01241
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We don’t care. This isn’t a spelling class.
He snidely said that I wished it, so frick him.
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