USAF Aerial Refuelling Tanker Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Disappears Over Hormuz After Emergency Alert

A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker, widely known as a “flying gas station” for its aerial refuelling role, has gone missing over the Gulf region near the Strait of Hormuz after transmitting a general emergency alert.The Boeing aircraft was tracked broadcasting a 7700 squawk code, the international signal for distress, before vanishing from public radar near Qatar. Reports indicate it was heading
A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker, widely known as a “flying gas station” for its aerial refuelling role, has gone missing over the Gulf region near the Strait of Hormuz after transmitting a general emergency alert.The Boeing aircraft was tracked broadcasting a 7700 squawk code, the international signal for distress, before vanishing from public radar near Qatar. Reports indicate it was heading
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