US pilot shot down over Iran had survived earlier downing in same war - report
A US Air Force F-15E pilot shot down over Iran on April 3 had also been downed less than five weeks earlier in a friendly-fire incident involving a Kuwaiti F/A-18, making him the first known Air Force fixed-wing pilot to be shot down twice in the same conflict since the Vietnam War, American national security journalist Sean D. Naylor reported, citing current and former Air Force officials.
