American F-16 fighter jet goes missing
Reuters
2013-01-29
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Search efforts by the U.S. Air Force and the Italian Coast Guard continued on Tuesday (January 29) for a U.S. F-16 fighter jet and its pilot that went missing during a training mission in north-eastern Italy on Monday evening. A fuel slick had been sighted at sea, ANSA news agency reported.
The U.S. Air Force said only that it "lost contact" with the F-16 at about 8 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Monday.
"The aircraft was performing a training mission over the Adriatic Sea with one person on board. The pilot's condition is unknown at this time," the U.S. Air Force said in a statement.
A helicopter, four Italian coast guard cutters and four vessels were combing the waters 10 miles (16 km) from Cervia, on the northern Adriatic coast. Coast guard divers have also been readied.
A spokesman at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy said more information would released when it became available.
Search efforts by the U.S. Air Force and the Italian Coast Guard continued on Tuesday (January 29) for a U.S. F-16 fighter jet and its pilot that went missing during a training mission in north-eastern Italy on Monday evening. A fuel slick had been sighted at sea, ANSA news agency reported.
The U.S. Air Force said only that it "lost contact" with the F-16 at about 8 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Monday.
"The aircraft was performing a training mission over the Adriatic Sea with one person on board. The pilot's condition is unknown at this time," the U.S. Air Force said in a statement.
A helicopter, four Italian coast guard cutters and four vessels were combing the waters 10 miles (16 km) from Cervia, on the northern Adriatic coast. Coast guard divers have also been readied.
A spokesman at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy said more information would released when it became available.
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