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U.S. military says all six crew killed in KC-135 tanker crash in western Iraq

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Local time
5:25 PM in Baghdad
Where
Western Iraq

U.S. Central Command said all six airmen aboard a KC-135 refueling plane that went down in western Iraq on Thursday were dead and that the loss was not due to hostile or friendly fire. U.S. officials told CBS a second KC-135 was damaged but landed safely, while Iran-backed Iraqi militias claimed they shot the plane down.

Why it matters

The crash raised the U.S. military death toll in the war to at least 13, seven of them killed in combat, and its cause remained under investigation.

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