U-2 Crashed in southeast asia

A US air force U-2 spy plane had crashed in south-west Asia, the US military said.

“The cause of the crash and status of the pilot are not known at this time,” the US Central Command Air Forces, or CENTAF, said in a brief statement.
The statement that did not say in which country the plane had crashed.

The U-2 is a single-seat, high-altitude reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft that can fly above 20,000m.

CENTAF conducts US air operations throughout south-west Asia

The primary use of the U-2 is for missile detection like in the cuban crisis
it is equiped with nuclear detector devices
there’s big possibility that this plane was on a mission over iran or on the border with it