Search For Missing American Pilot Continues—U.S. And Iranian Forces Race To Find Crew Member (Live Updates).
The U.S. military continued its search Saturday for a missing American pilot whose aircraft was shot down Friday by Iranian forces, one of two U.S. warplane crashes in the region, while Iran conducts a competing search as it urges locals through state media to find the “enemy pilot.”.
One of two crew members of an American F-15E Strike Eagle war jet remains missing as of midday Saturday, and the American military is conducting a “frantic” search in southwestern Iran to find the pilot, the Associated Press reported.
The competing U.S. and Iranian searches for the missing pilot have stoked fears Iran could capture the pilot and use him as leverage, a New York Times analysis says.
The Times reported Israel suspended attacks on Iran in the region where the pilot is believed to be missing and is sharing intelligence with American forces.
The other crew member in the F-15E crash was rescued by U.S. forces and was receiving medical treatment as of Friday afternoon.
Iranian state media first claimed early Friday it had downed a U.S. fighter jet over central Iran, and multiple U.S. outlets later reported Iran shot down the jet, an F-15E two-seater plane.
The downed aircraft comes after Trump announced a strike on an Iranian highway bridge near Tehran and warned of “much more to follow,” also claiming the United States would bombard Iran “back to the stone ages” over the next several weeks.
Trump, who previously claimed the United States “knocked out” Iran’s navy, air force and air defense capabilities, did not comment on the rescue operations in an interview with NBC News, noting the incident would not affect peace negotiations with Iran.
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