Pentagon identifies airmen killed in Afghanistan crash

By Zach Halaschak

Published January 29, 2020 11:03pm ET

Pentagon identifies airmen killed in Afghanistan crash — A wreckage of a U.S. military aircraft that crashed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, is seen on Monday. A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said, adding that there were no indications so far it'd been brought down by enemy fire. | (Saifullah Maftoon/AP)

The Department of Defense has identified two men killed when a reconnaissance aircraft crashed in a Taliban-held area of Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said Wednesday that Lt. Col. Paul K. Voss of Guam and Capt. Ryan S. Phaneuf of New Hampshire were killed in the Air Force E-11A plane that crashed on Monday in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province.

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