A U.S. military aircraft crashed on Friday night over the eastern Mediterranean during a training operation.
The unspecified aircraft ‘suffered a mishap and went down’, said U.S. European Command (EUCOM) in a statement.
The Stuttgart, Germany-based division did not say how many casualties there were, ‘out of respect for the families’, but said the aircraft did not crash as a result of any attack.
The Pentagon had not confirmed if there were any casualties in Friday’s accident
EUCOM said in a statement: ‘Out of respect for the families affected, we will not release further information on the personnel involved at this time.
‘The cause of the training incident is currently under investigation.
‘However, we can definitively say that the aircraft sortie was purely related to training and there are no indications of hostile activity.
‘We will provide more information as the situation develops.’
EUCOM is comprised of 65,000 permanent military personnel, responsible for U.S. military operations across Europe, portions of Asia and the Middle East, the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean.
On November 3, EUCOM announced that three days of Naval exercises had taken place in the Mediterranean, where two carrier strike groups have been positioned since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
The USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower are currently in the region to warn Iran against getting involved in the current conflict.
EUCOM said that 11,000 people participated in the exercises, and ‘trained on high-value unit defense, ballistic missile defense, replenishments-at-sea, cross-deck flight operations, and maritime security operations.’