(Can't seem to delete my previous post.)
Thursday, 6 December 2018:
F/A-18D.
VMFA(AW)-242 "Bats", MAG-12, 1st MAW, USMC, based at MCAS Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
KC-130J.
VMGR-152 "Sumos", MAG-12, 1st MAW, USMC, based at MCAS Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
1:40, during training, collided, and crashed into sea, 100 km south-southeast from Muroto Cape, Kouchi Prefecture.
F/A-18: two crew ejected, and rescued.
Pilot killed.
Captain Jahmar F. Resilard (28).
Co-pilot survived.
KC-130: five crew missing as at 2018/12/08.
5:40, F/A-18 co-pilot rescued by JMSDF SH-60J, and was conscious.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=2018 ... shimav-l36SH-60J of 24th Koukuutai, JMSDF, based at Komatsushima AB, Tokushima Prefecture.
SH-60J delivered F/A-18 co-pilot to Komatsushima AB, and another SH-60J of 24th Koukuutai delivered F/A-18 co-pilot to MCAS Iwakuni.
10:45, F/A-18 pilot found by JCG patrol ship.
He was strapped to his seat.
12:15, rescued by JMSDF training ship, DD-131 JDS Setoyuki.
SH-60J of 24th Koukuutai, JMSDF, delivered him from JDS Setoyuki to Komatsushima AB, and to Tokushima Red Cross Hospital, Komatsushima City, Tokushima Prefecture.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=2018 ... shimav-l3623:00, F/A-18 pilot confirmed as killed, at Tokushima Red Cross Hospital.
SAR action included patrol ship PS-15 Bizan of Tokushima Coast Guard Office, JCG.
F/A-18 was one of flight of at least two.
Wingman circled crash site.
https://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/05kanku/tokushima/Tokushima Coast Guard Office, JCG.
http://www.tokushima-med.jrc.or.jp/en/Tokushima Red Cross Hospital.
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews ... 14-ann-inthttps://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews ... 7-fnn-socihttps://news.usni.org/2018/12/05/39344https://news.usni.org/2018/12/07/marine ... ll-missing