Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, plans to inspect all of its F-15E Strike Eagles after one of the fighters was forced to conduct an emergency landing with a missing wheel .

The planned safety inspections were announced Wednesday morning, two days after an F-15E returned from a deployment to Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia but discovered mid-flight that it had lost one of its wheels.

That F-15E landed safely and without injury to the two airmen aboard — who are from the 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron — and a safety investigation is now under way. The wheel was recovered on the flight line at Diego Garcia.

“The way the aircrew handled the landing is a testament to their training and professionalism, and I want to thank the first responders and safety teams for being poised an

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