ISIS video shows Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive...

Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh was captured when his plane came down near Raqqa, Syria, in December on a mission to support the US-led military coalition against IS.

Jordan's military confirms 26-year-old pilot Moaz al-Kassasbeh has been killed, family has been notified.

According Jordanian TV 3/2/2015  Moaz was killed 3/Jan/2015 a month before video appeared in social media 

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Muath Safi Yousef Al-Kasasbeh (May 29, 1988 – February 3, 2015) was a Jordanian pilot. 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. There has been and continues to be widespread coverage internationally about the fate of this pilot and now the retribution for his death in the aftermath of it.

Al-Kasasbeh was a lieutenant in the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The plane he was flying was formerly used by the Dutch military.

Early life

Al-Kasasbeh was born to Safi Youssef Al-Kasasbeh. He has 7 siblings, including a brother, Jawdat, and comes from a prominent Jordanian family and an influential tribe. His uncle was a Major General in the Army. They are of the Bararsheh tribe from the south of Jordan.

In 2009, he graduated from the King Hussein Air College. He then underwent additional F-16 tactics training with the Republic of Korea Air Force, 120th Flying Squadron at the Seosan Air Base under a joint Korean-Jordanian exchange programme. By 2012, he joined No. 1 Squadron at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, flying F-16's. Al-Kasasbeh, prior to his capture, lived in the village of Ay.[6]

His family is trying to put pressure on the Jordanian government to keep him alive. Originally, it was proposed to trade him and a kidnapped Japanese journalist, Kenji Goto, for Sajida al-Rishawi, a jailed suicide bomber in Jordan, but Goto was later beheaded.

Hostage

Al-Kasasbeh was a First Lieutenant in rank.

Jordan has reportedly threatened to kill ISIL prisoners if Al-Kasasbeh is executed as he has now been. Subsequently an execution, that of the female bomber Sajida al-Rishawi who was going to be traded for al-Kasabeh will now take place according to reports.

Pictures published on ISIS's official al Furqan media site apparently show Jordanian military pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh being burned alive while confined in a cage.