NEW: U.S. Aircraft Lands Safely After ‘Vanishing’ Over Qatar

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A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker declared an in-flight emergency while operating over the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz. The aircraft transmitted the international distress code 7700, indicating a general emergency, before its transponder signal was lost from public flight-tracking platforms such as Flightradar24 as it approached Qatari airspace.

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