🔸One of the two U.S. Air Force officers whose fighter was shot down over Iran in Farvardin spoke for the first time about the fall with a damaged parachute and the moment the rescue team arrived while he tried to escape Iranian forces.

🔸One of the two U.S. Air Force officers whose fighter was shot down over Iran in Farvardin spoke for the first time, in an interview, about the fall with a damaged parachute and his attempts to flee from Iranian forces, and the moment the rescue team arrived.

🔸CBS spoke with this U.S. Air Force colonel who was the officer in charge of the weapons systems and was the back-seat crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter; his identity has not been disclosed for security reasons, and he was introduced under the alias “Bravo.”

🔸The crew of the American fighter, which at dawn on the 14th of Farvardin was targeted in a mountainous area in southern Isfahan, were known by the operational names “Alpha” and “Bravo”; “Alpha” was the pilot, and “Bravo” was the weapons-systems officer.

🔸“Bravo,” in an interview with CBS’s program “60 Minutes,” about the moment the missile struck the aircraft and his use of the parachute, said: “There was a moment when I looked up and saw there was no parachute; that was the most terrifying moment I’ve experienced in my entire life.”

🔸He says that right there he decided to request help to save himself.