US military rejects Jordan jet was shot down by ISIL

The United States rejects a claim by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists that they shot down a Jordanian F-16 fighter jet flying with US-led coalition forces in eastern Syria, Press TV reported.

US Central Command (CentCom) in a statement on Wednesday said, “Evidence clearly indicates that ISIL did not down the aircraft as the terrorist organization is claiming.”

The body, which oversees the US-led coalition airstrikes against the ISIL militants in Iraq and Syria, did not give a cause for the crash.

The statement, however, confirmed the Jordanian pilot had been taken hostage by the ISIL Takfiri militants.

Earlier on Wednesday, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that the ISIL Takfiri militants had shot down the Jordanian F-16 flying with the US-led coalition in Syria’s Raqqa province.

The Jordanian military also confirmed that its warplane had crashed in Syria and that its pilot was captured by the ISIL militants.