Predator crashes in Iraq

An MQ-1 Predator crashed Monday morning local time in Southeastern Iraq, according to U.S. Air Forces, Central Command.

The drone was flying a combat mission when it went down, AFCENT announced in a brief news release on Monday. There are no reports so far that civilians were injured or property damaged at the crash site.

AFCENT maintains that the Predator was not brought down by enemy fire, but it did not provide other information about how the drone crashed. Investigators will work to determine why the Predator crashed.

In March, a Predator went down over Northwest Syria. It is unknown whether the drone was shot down by the Syrian government.

The current generation of Air Force unmanned aircraft cannot survive in contested airspace. They have been escorted by fighters over the Strait of Hormuz to keep Iranian aircraft away.

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