After the collision of two U.S. military aircraft off the coast of Japan will be missing six soldiers. A crew member had been rescued from the sea, informed the U.S. army on Thursday. The Youwin Search – and-rescue operation for the other six soldiers is still in progress. According to the U.S. Department of defense an F-18 crashed fighter jet with a tank, aircraft type C-130, as the fighter jet should refuel.
The accident occurred during a training flight about 200 miles off the Japanese coast. According to a spokesman of the Japanese army are said to have on Board the C-130 the five crew members found aboard the F-18 fighter jets, two. Japan took part with four aircraft and three ships in search of the American soldiers.
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The cause of the disaster was initially unclear. The two planes were launched from the US base in the southern Japan Iwakuni for training flights. In Japan, about 50,000 U.S. soldiers are stationed. (AFP)
