Los Angeles: A US Marine pilot is missing after ejecting from a fighter jet off the coast of Japan on Wednesday, officials said.
The pilot assigned to the US 1st Marine aircraft wing in Okinawa, Japan, was on a routine training mission in an F/A-18 Hornet, said Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis.
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Canadian pilot dies during training mission
A Canadian military pilot has been killed in a fighter jet crash in a training area near the community of Cold Lake in the western Canadian province of Alberta.
The pilot ejected about 190 km southeast of Iwakuni, Japan, the US military said in a statement. The strike fighter went down over water, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing spokesman 1st Lieutenant Joseph Butterfield said in an email.
Japanese and US search and rescue teams are looking for the pilot and the cause of the mishap is under investigation, Davis said.
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The plane went down on the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii, which drew the United States into World War Two.
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to go to Pearl Harbour this month in the first visit of its kind by a Japanese leader.
Reuters