What We Know About the U.S. Jets That Crashed in the Mideast 62%
By Neil Vigdor0%
4/3/2026, 8:33:35 PM
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An F-15E Strike Eagle was lost to enemy fire and an A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, officials said.
A rescue helicopter was also fired upon.
The U.S. military lost its first fighter jet to enemy fire from Iran on Friday, U.S. and Israeli officials said, a setback for the Trump administration, which has repeatedly sought to project that American warplanes had established air supremacy in the five-week war.
The jet, an F-15E Strike Eagle, was carrying a crew of two.
U.S. military officials said they had ejected from the aircraft.
One of the two airmen was rescued, while the second crew member had not been accounted for as of early Saturday.
Separately, another Air Force combat plane, an A-10 Warthog, crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.
They did not say what caused it to go down.
Here’s what we know:
Iran’s military showed it still had the capacity to strike.
Iran shot down the F-15E over the southwestern part of the country on Friday, two days after President Trump declared in an address to the nation Wednesday night that the United States was moving closer to achieving its military objectives.
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