While military aircraft are designed with safety in mind, they do have to operate in combat zones. In some cases, a pilot ...

U.S. forces raced to recover two airmen who ejected from an F-15E Strike Eagle after it was hit by enemy fire during ...

TOPGUN graduate Matthew "Whiz" Buckley said pilots are left with "a pretty stark choice to either die or eject." ...

A retired F-15 pilot who survived one of the fastest known fighter jet ejections in history, describes what two US airmen ...

A former Air Force pilot explains the rapid sequence and extreme forces involved after two U.S. airmen were forced to eject ...

Retired Air Force pilot Joe Feheley explains the 'priceless' rescue of two U.S. airmen shot down by Iran, highlighting ...

A “seriously wounded” US Air Force colonel was rescued after ejecting from his shot-down fighter jet over Iran. Despite his ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former Navy fighter pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley about the U.S. rescue mission for the crew members of an F-15 fighter jet shot down over Iran.

Missing US airman evaded capture in Iran for more than 36 hours. How his rescue by hundreds of troops unfolded.

While ejecting from the plane, the airman radioed three words that caught President Donald Trump's attention.

Two American airmen are safe after a dramatic rescue operation in Iran. Lt. Col. Dan Rooney explains the critical survival ...

Trump said the F-15 was shot down by a shoulder-fired heat-seeking missile, with the jet's two-person crew ejecting and ...