LONDON/COPENHAGEN/BEIRUT, March 7 (Reuters) - Airline pilots have faced escalating risks in recent years, from drone incursions to flight paths squeezed by conflict. Now U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran are making the skies even more perilous and ratcheting up the pressure on those flying through them.

A pilot from Boulder City was killed in a plane crash Saturday morning near the Nevada-Utah border, according to information from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. is accused of allegedly training Chinese military pilots overseas.