{"id":32125,"date":"2022-11-03T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/11\/03\/kc-46-tankers-boom-breaks-dents-plane-while-refueling-fighter-jet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:14:44","slug":"kc-46-tankers-boom-breaks-dents-plane-while-refueling-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2022\/11\/03\/kc-46-tankers-boom-breaks-dents-plane-while-refueling-fighter-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"KC-46 tanker\u2019s boom breaks, dents plane while refueling fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Air Force officials are investigating a mishap that heavily damaged a KC-46 Pegasus tanker plane while it refueled a fighter jet last month, Air Force Times has learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tanker was on its way from Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, when it was tasked to gas up an F-15, an Air Force official confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators believe that during the rendezvous, the two aircraft were traveling at such different speeds that the refueling boom forcibly broke away from the fighter jet and slammed back into the KC-46, the official said. The Pegasus safely continued on to New Jersey after the mishap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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