The Brief
- A KC-135 Strato-Tanker went down over Western Iraq on Thursday.
- The refueling plane was participating in Operation Epic Fury.
- Six service members were killed and three of them were assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base.
- One expert said it is too soon to know if human error played a part in this crash and all speculation is premature.
TAMPA – It was a KC-135 Strato-Tanker that went down over western Iraq on Thursday, killing six service members.
Three of them were assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa but were stationed at Sumpter Smith Joint National Guard Base in Birmingham, Alabama.
Jim Cardoso is the Senior Director at USF’s Global and National Security Institute and a former Airforce pilot. He weighed in on the tragedy.
What they’re saying:…