An aerial refueling tanker crashed in Western Iraq, U.S. officials said.

A helicopter crash in Qatar’s territorial waters has left six people dead and one missing after a reported technical malfunction during a routine mission. Emergency teams launched an immediate search and rescue operation,

The six U.S. service members who died in the crash of a U.S. military refueling aircraft included an Alabama father who had just been promoted and deployed.

The crash was not caused by hostile or friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said. All six crew members died, it said, bringing the number of U.S. service members killed in the Iran war to at least 13.

WASHINGTON (AP) — All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed while supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said Friday.

All six airmen killed when an Air Force refueling plane crashed in Iraq have been identified – including a beloved 33-year-old Alabama father of three who deployed just a week before the deadly crash.

The U.S. military has confirmed that all six crew members were killed when an American KC-135 refueling plane taking part in the Iran war crashed in western Iraq.

A federal jury in Mississippi has acquitted a former military aircraft engineer of lying and obstruction of justice following a deadly 2017 military place crash.