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The Pentagon said the airmen on board the KC-135 plane were: John Klinner, 33, from Alabama; Ariana Savino, 31, from Washington; Ashley Pruitt, 34, from Kentucky; Seth Koval, 38, from Indiana; Curtis Angst, 30, from Ohio; and Tyler Simmons, 28, also from Ohio.
US officials told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, the incident may have involved a midair collision, but added that they were still investigating.
Thursday's crash brings the official US military death toll in the US-Israel war with Iran, which began a fortnight ago, to 13. Six more soldiers were killed in Kuwait and one other in Saudi Arabia.
To date, the US military has lost at least four aircraft during the war, which started with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on 28 February.
