A US fighter jet has been shot down over Iran, with a search currently under way for its crew, a US official has told Axios, the Reuters news agency and the New York Times. Separately, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the US is conducting a rescue operation for the crew.
It follows reports in Iranian media that a US search for a downed pilot is under way.
A US F-15E fighter has been shot down over Iran, prompting a frantic US search and rescue effort for its two-strong crew, in the first such incident since the start of the war.
Images of a tail fin and other debris were released by Iranian state media early on Friday accompanied by an initial claim that an advanced US F-35 and been hit by a new air defence system over central Iran and the pilot probably killed.
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Aviation experts said the wreckage pictured was in fact from a F-15E from the US air force’s 494th squadron, based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK, though it could not at first be confirmed when and where the pictures were taken.
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