US aerial refuelling plane crashes in western Iraq
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
US officials have said a KC-135 refuelling plane that went down in western Iraq was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. They said it had involved a second refuelling aircraft that landed safely. Six crew members were reported to be on the plane that crashed. We also hear from Lebanon where a BBC correspondent has been spending time in the south of the country which is under constant Israeli attack. In other news, a man who was shot dead by armed guards when he drove his truck into a synagogue in the US state of Michigan has been identified as a naturalised US citizen who was born in Lebanon; a satirical cartoonist has been freed from prison in Eritrea after fifteen years without charge; and the chef behind Copenhagen's Noma restaurant steps back after multiple accusations of abuse by staff.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Friday the 13th of March, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.8 | Questions are being asked after an American plane reportedly crashed in Iraq. Meanwhile, |
| 0:23.2 | airstrikes are continuing in Iran and Lebanon. And the US authorises the temporary sale of some |
| 0:29.2 | Russian oil in another effort to curb the war's economic impact. Also in this podcast, |
| 0:37.1 | there have already been some violations of this law. |
| 0:40.3 | Due process will be followed. |
| 0:41.9 | This kind of filming puts yourself in harm's way. |
| 0:44.7 | Why filming Iranian missiles can get you into big trouble in Dubai. |
| 0:54.0 | We start with a rescue effort underway in Iraq after a US refueling aircraft apparently |
| 1:00.4 | crashed. The US military has said neither hostile nor friendly fire were to blame. Speaking to |
| 1:06.5 | the BBC, White House representative Jim Himes, the most senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, gave his immediate reaction. |
| 1:14.8 | This is part of the inevitable costs of a conflict. Even the best military doesn't operate without accidents, and that appears to have been what occurred here. |
| 1:23.2 | But the United States has already lost, I believe we're up to eight now, fatalities as part of this, |
| 1:29.5 | lots of individuals injured, gas prices high, the Supreme Leader replaced by somebody who is |
| 1:34.6 | even more extreme than the Supreme Leader of a month ago. |
| 1:38.6 | And so, amongst other things, we pray for the safety of the crew, but this is the cost to be |
| 1:44.0 | paid when a nation |
| 1:45.0 | decides to go to war. I got more from our North America correspondent, Simi Jolla Oshay. |
| 1:50.5 | So what we know is that two aircraft were involved in the incident and that it occurred in friendly |
| 1:56.8 | airspace. The U.S. Central Command has given us a few more details saying that one of the |
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