A US government official has told Al Jazeera that the second crew member from the downed F-15E has been recovered after a “heavy firefight”.
We were told by the US government source that overnight in Iran, a missing crew member of the downed F-15E has been located, and there was a rescue effort, but there was a fierce firefight.
The latest information we have with them is that the crew member has not left Iranian territory, and because of the ongoing hostilities, there could be still danger to that person and to other people involved in that rescue effort.
So, this is an ongoing, active, rescue effort, but that airman is not basically out of Iranian territory, and I want to be clear when I say airman in the US military parlance, that doesn’t necessarily mean a male.
We don’t know the gender of this person.
The US rescue team still needs to successfully exfiltrate them out of the country and to safety, and we have no confirmation that that has happened
