A video from Indian news showed the pilot as captured.
Videos from India news are notoriously notorious with respect to reality or a lack there of.
DYK YouTube has built-in AI that can verify if bullshit or not?
Ok. The US has rescued the missing crew member of the US F-15 fighter jet which was shot down on Friday over southern Iran.
US President Donald Trump confirmed the rescue on social media on Sunday morning after the US military "pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations" in its history. The officer is "now SAFE and SOUND!" he added.
Two crew members were on board the jet, and both ejected from the plane. One of them had already been rescued by US forces.
The US has rescued the missing crew member of the US F-15 fighter jet which was shot down over southern Iran.
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India has been described as a "front line" in the battle of information warfare, where high internet usage, coupled with sometimes lower digital literacy and high levels of organized misinformation, allows such content to spread.
The US and Iran were in a race to locate the missing crew member after the jet was downed over southern Iran. The exact circumstances of the US rescue remain unclear, but one person familiar with the operation described it as a "huge" combat search and rescue mission in southern Iran.
The BBC understands there was an engagement between the US and Iranian forces during the rescue, and the pilot may have been injured during his initial ejection from the aircraft. The rescue of crew members of a downed jet is one of the most complex and time-sensitive operations - known as combat search and rescue (CSAR) - that the US military and its allies prepare for.
The air force units behind CSAR missions include some of the most highly trained and specialised members of the military.
In his social media post, Trump said the airman - a colonel - "was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour". Officials told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the crew member spent more than 24 hours on his own, hiding in the mountains with a handgun.
The president added the airman's location was monitored "24 hours a day" by senior US officials who were planning the rescue operation. A senior official also told CBS that the CIA played a crucial in the rescue mission by tracking the airman in a mountain crevice and passing his exact location to the Pentagon.
The agency engaged in a deception campaign inside Iran, reports said. While the rescue attempt was taking place, the agency spread word the airman had already been found and was being extracted from Iran. Trump said the US military sent dozens of aircraft into Iran and claimed the operation was carried out without any Americans being killed or wounded.
Earlier, Iran had said it wanted to find the missing American alive and had offered a reward to citizens for help in finding them. The crew of a downed jet are highly trained for such situations. "Their number-one priority is to stay alive and to avoid capture," Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at think tank Defense Priorities, told the BBC.
"They're trained to - assuming that they're physically capable, and not so injured that they can't move - to try to get away from the ejection site as quickly as possible, and to conceal themselves so that they are safe." They're also trained on survival techniques so that they can go without food or water, or find resources from the local terrain, for as long as possible, Kavanagh said.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle between what both sides are claiming.
