US fighter jet shot down over Iran, search under way for crew member, US officials say

US fighter jet shot down over Iran, search under way for crew member, US officials say

A US fighter jet has been shot down over Iran and search-and-rescue efforts have so far recovered one of two crew members who ejected, a US official told Reuters, in the first known incident of its kind in the nearly five-week-old war. The Pentagon and US Central Command did not respond to requests for comment. The prospect of a US pilot being alive and on the run inside Iran raises the stakes for the United States in a conflict that, according to opinion polls, has struggled to win popular supp...

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