Navy SEALs recover two bodies from U.S. plane wreckage in Taliban-held territory
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,has learned. U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon that two American service members were covered.
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 mayday call went out while the aircraft was at 42,000 feet, which is considered to be cruising altitude. The plane crashed around 1 p.m. local time on Monday, a U.S. defense official who was briefed on the details of the crash toldArif Noori, a provincial government spokesman, told CBS News the plane appeared to have been flying between Kandahar in the south and Kabul in the north. Ghazni province falls between those two locations.
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