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wnylib

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13. Yes, you missed one, but you are not alone on that.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 01:20 PM

15 hrs ago

Half the media are misreporting the number, too.

In that first group of 7, there were also several who were wounded, some critically. One of those wounded later died, raising the number to 8.

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In the UK, Historian Mark Felton found parts of WWII still classified bucolic_frolic 18 hrs ago #3

When I was writing my melm00se 13 hrs ago #16

Maybe if genius MF47 had some bases in Afghanistan this wouldn't have happened Ponietz 18 hrs ago #4

Mid-air collision AverageOldGuy 17 hrs ago #5

I speculated on that in another thread: InstantGratification 16 hrs ago #6

It is almost 100% certain that the collision was with another plane involved in the refueling operation Bluetus 15 hrs ago #11

Correct, tankers are not normally that close InstantGratification 13 hrs ago #18

It's amazing that the other plane survived. I saw the supposed image of the other plane and it looked pretty good! LeftInTX 16 hrs ago #8

The number is now 13. Baitball Blogger 16 hrs ago #7

14 wnylib 15 hrs ago #10

7 from the first strike in Kuwait and this 6. Baitball Blogger 15 hrs ago #12

Yes, you missed one, but you are not alone on that. wnylib 15 hrs ago #13

They did underreport it. Baitball Blogger 15 hrs ago #14

Everything Trump touches. Initech 15 hrs ago #9

my granddaughter called her mother sobbing... agingdem 14 hrs ago #15

There was no way they would have survived RetiredParatrooper 13 hrs ago #17

A lot of people don't realize in every air war more planes have been lost to accidents than combat JohnnyRingo 13 hrs ago #19

Sounds like exhausted -pilot error Warpy 12 hrs ago #20

There are no parachutes on a KC-135 so the plane... S/V Loner 11 hrs ago #21