Special operation forces recovered two sets of remains from the wreckage of a U.S. military aircraft that crashed in Taliban-held territory of Afghanistan, Newsweek has learned.
U.S. Special Operation Forces recovered two sets of remains from the wreckage of a U.S. military aircraft that crash-landed in Taliban-held territory of Afghanistan,Members of the elite Naval Special Warfare Development Group, more commonly known as SEAL Team Six, secured the crash site on Tuesday in the Deh Yak district of Ghazni province, located in central Afghanistan, just south of the capital.
The human remains were recovered from a U.S. Air Force E-11A assigned to the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron based out of Kandahar Airfield, about 178 miles southwest of where the plane crashed. "The crash is under investigation, there are no indications the crash was caused by enemy fire. We will provide additional information as it becomes available," said U.S. Army Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan on Twitter."Taliban claims that additional aircraft have crashed are false."that one early working theory is that bad fuel could be the cause, but added that further investigation would be needed. One U.S.
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