A KC-135 tanker assigned to McConnell AFB, Kan., had to make an emergency landing on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Monday due to a suspected fuel leak, reported Stars and Stripes. The tanker touched down at Sol San Juan airport in Palma de Mallorca on the Mediterranean island off of Spain’s eastern coast. There were no reported injuries and the airplane was expected to leave the airport upon completion of repairs, according to the newspaper’s Sept. 30 report, which cited an Air Force official and a statement from the US embassy in Madrid. The tanker had taken off from the Spanish air base at Moron in southern Spain, outside of Seville.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.