CNN’s Jim Sciutto revealed that several U.S. government sources confirmed Iranian state TV’s claim on Friday that a search and rescue operation is underway to locate the two pilots of a downed U.S. fighter jet over Southwestern Iran.
“It is our understanding that this is a U.S. fighter jet — not Israeli — and I don’t have to say how significant it is to have U.S. pilots down on enemy territory during wartime. This would certainly be the first time in this war, I think you’d have to go back to Yugoslavia in the 1990s for a previous incident of this,” Sciutto said. Advertisement “It’s the first time since the beginning of the war that a U.S. jet was downed by enemy fire.
