Al Jazerra reporting missing US pilot has been rescued after firefight

[AverageOldGuy]

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Source: Al Jazerra English service

The US has “recovered” the second crew member from the downed F-15E jet in Iran following a “heavy firefight”, a US government official says.

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/5/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-trumps-ultimatum-fire-at-kuwait-oil-complex

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This is all I have. Waiting for other news services to check in.

[underpants]

1. Good. That's great news.

[Deuxcents]

2. At last! Can we stop this madness?

[Dave Bowman]

3. +1

[riversedge]

4. neither cnn nor ms now are reporting this news.......

I do not know what is going on, =that I admit

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[LeftInTX]

6. Wow! He's been rescued.

[Pompoy]

10. What is PXR?

[Lasher]

5. Axios has it now.

Second crew member from F-15 downed in Iran rescued by U.S. forces: Officials

U.S. special forces rescued the second crew member of the F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran, three U.S. officials tell Axios.

Why it matters: The shootdown was a nightmare scenario for the U.S. military, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also racing to locate the missing U.S. officer in southwest Iran over the past 36 hours. Both crew members were rescued in special forces operations inside Iran.

One of the U.S. officials said Saturday's operation was conducted by a specialized commando unit with a high volume of air cover, that the U.S. forces unleashed a hail of heavy fire, and that all of the forces were now out of Iran.

How it happened: According to two sources, the F-15 pilot and weapons systems officer both made contact via their comms systems after ejecting on Friday.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/05/iran-f15-crew-member-rescued

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. The US Military has the world's best Special Forces, despite Trumpedo's and Kegsbreath.

Congrats to the units that risked their lives to bring home our weapons officer, now, let's get the rest of our units home and stop this illegal war.

[rollin74]

7. Great News!

So glad that he was rescued before the IRGC could get to him

[C Moon]

11. Behind closed doors, trump will say they were losers for being shot down.

[Aviation Pro]

12. PJs doing PJ shit

But I wouldn’t rule out a TF of Rangers either.

[Emile]

13. After an alert and discussion with the hosts, locking.

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