New US Air Force investigation shows how an in-flight refueling of an F-22 Raptor went wrong to the tune of nearly $10 million

A KC-46 Pegasus tanker lost its entire refueling boom during an F-22 Raptor refueling mission, causing costly damage.

Air Force faults crew in second tanker accident that tore off boom

A 2025 accident was the fourth time since 2022 that a design flaw known as "nozzle binding" in the Air Force's newest, high ...
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KC-46A boom mishap caused by operator and F-22 pilot errors, investigation finds

An investigation found that a KC-46A's emergency landing and refueling boom damage in July 2025 was mainly due to the ...

Boeing converted its 767 airliner into a military tanker that can refuel other planes midair — meet the KC-46A Pegasus

Boeing said building its KC-46A Pegasus tanker would be a "low-risk" job, but production flaws have cost the planemaker over ...
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How boom operators aboard the US Air Force's flying gas stations keep their cool doing an 'inherently dangerous' job

Thousands of feet up and racing across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, US Air Force tankers close to within just 12 feet of fighter jets to refuel them in flight, sometimes as little as 8 feet, ...

The US Air Force spent $10 billion on a tanker that still can't do its most basic job

The US Air Force's KC-46 Pegasus remains trapped in a costly limbo more than a decade after development began.