Six US service members are dead after a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker, a refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, the US military said, adding that the incident was “not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.

The Pentagon has identified the six airmen who were killed as part of a crash that happened over Iraq during Operation Epic Fury on Thursday.

Ohio aircrew members confirmed dead in KC-135 crash in Iraq

Six U.S. service members who were killed in a military refueling aircraft crash over Iraq last week have been identified as members of the Ohio Air National Guard and Florida-based crew members.

Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons, an airman with the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, died in a refueling plane crash Thursday in Iraq.

All six crew members were killed when a US Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq on Thursday, US Central Command announced Friday morning. Here's everything to know about the KC-135