What We Know About the U.S. Jets That Crashed in the Mideast ⁠62%

By Neil Vigdor⁠0%

4/3/2026, 8:33:35 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Biased Writer Voice, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 49.8% saturation with 115 hits. Analysis detected 516 faulty-reasoning hits from 231 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 57.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠62% (8,431 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 61.50% of the article peer group.

An F-15E Strike Eagle was lost to enemy fire and an A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, officials said. 
A rescue helicopter was also fired upon. 
The U.S. military lost its first fighter jet to enemy fire from Iran on Friday, U.S. and Israeli officials said, a setback for the Trump administration, which has repeatedly sought to project that American warplanes had established air supremacy in the five-week war. 
The jet, an F-15E Strike Eagle, was carrying a crew of two. 
U.S. military officials said they had ejected from the aircraft. 
One of the two airmen was rescued, while the second crew member had not been accounted for as of early Saturday. 
Separately, another Air Force combat plane, an A-10 Warthog, crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. 
They did not say what caused it to go down. 
Here’s what we know: 
Iran’s military showed it still had the capacity to strike. 
Iran shot down the F-15E over the southwestern part of the country on Friday, two days after President Trump declared in an address to the nation Wednesday night that the United States was moving closer to achieving its military objectives. 
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