{"id":86372,"date":"2026-03-13T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86372"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:26:17","slug":"four-crew-members-killed-after-plane-crash-in-iraq-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/13\/four-crew-members-killed-after-plane-crash-in-iraq-officials-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Four crew members killed after plane crash in Iraq, officials confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XOYkM.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=181&amp;y=118&amp;s=790&amp;d=93\" alt=\"President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attend a dignified transfer ceremony for U.S. servicemembers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on March 7, 2026 (Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four of the six crew members aboard the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/iran-us-war-live-updates-trump-israel-oil-iraq-b2937707.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq<\/a> on Thursday have been confirmed dead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/four-crew-members-killed-after-plane-crash-in-iraq-officials-confirm\/ar-AA1Yxg0h?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b3d188d658485482223fd960e6670c&amp;cvpid=69b3f3ec1fd44dcfb16f0708f201eb59&amp;ei=6\">\u00a0Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Four of the six crew members aboard the\u00a0U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq on Thursday have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Breaking-News-yellow.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86373,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86372\/revisions\/86373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}