in Front of the Japanese coast hit two U.S. military aircraft during a training flight. 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. Japan took part with four aircraft and three ships in search of the American soldiers. The cause of the disaster was initially unclear.

The two aircraft were from the US base in the southern Japan Iwakuni started. From the Ministry of defense in Tokyo, it was said, the combat aircraft be in the middle of collided in the air and about 100 kilometres South of Cape Muroto on the island of Shikoku in the sea plunged.

the U.S.-according to media reports, two crew members were on Board the fighter jet, on Board of the Tanker aircraft to five. An army spokeswoman said a soldier was alive and in stable condition, has been rescued from the sea. The Search – and-rescue operation for the other six soldiers is ongoing.

in the past, there had been a series of accidents around the U.S. military in Japan. In November, a jet fighter of the Navy crashed off the island of Okinawa into the sea, the two pilots were rescued. In mid-October a helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in front of the Philippine sea crashed shortly after the Start. More than 50,000 U.S. soldiers are stationed within the framework of a bilateral Sicherheitspakts in Japan.