Muath Safi Yousef Al-Kasasbeh (May 29, 1988 â January 3, 2015) was a Jordanian pilot who was murdered by ISIL. The plane he was piloting, a Lockheed Martin F-16, crashed after mechanical problems on December 24, 2014 though ISIL claims it shot the aircraft down. He was captured by ISIL terrorists near Raqqa, Syria. He was threatened with execution but there were negotiations to release him. However, ISIL decapitated his co-prisoner, a Japanese journalist, and subsequently burned al-Kaseabeh alive.
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