{"id":223296,"date":"2026-05-02T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223296"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:55:14","slug":"us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223296","title":{"rendered":"US Refueling Plane Crashes in Iraq Killing Four Crew Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four American crew members died when their refueling plane crashed in western Iraq during a combat mission on Thursday afternoon. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the fatalities but emphasized that hostile fire did not cause the initial mid-air incident. Meanwhile, a second damaged aircraft managed to land safely at Ben Gurion airport in Israel \u2026<br \/>\nThe post US Refueling Plane Crashes in Iraq Killing Four Crew Members appeared first on Leaders&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaders-mena.com\/us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four American crew members died when their refueling plane crashed in western Iraq during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members.webp",1000,563,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members.webp",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members.webp",1000,563,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members.webp",1000,563,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members.webp",1000,563,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members-825x563.webp",825,563,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223296-us-refueling-plane-crashes-in-iraq-killing-four-crew-members-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}