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Fuel leak forces Air Force tanker to land

PALMA, Spain, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- No one was injured after a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker was forced to make an emergency landing on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, officials said.

Military officials said the tanker's pilots suspected they had a fuel leak and landed Monday at Sol San Juan airport in Palma, Majorca, an island off the Spanish coast, Stars and Stripes reported.

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The tanker, based out of McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, had taken off from a Spanish base in Moron in southern Spain when pilots first noticed signs of trouble.

The U.S. Air Force has used KC-135 Stratotankers for 50 years. They're scheduled to be decommissioned in 2017 and replaced by the next-generation KC-46 tankers, Stars and Stripes said.

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