Swiss fighter jet missing, believed crashed: ministry
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The suspected accident of the army fighter jet would be the latest in a string of crashes to befall the Swiss airforce A Swiss army fighter jet went missing over the Alps on Monday and is
believed to have crashed, the defence ministry said, adding that a large-scale search and rescue operation had been launched. The F/A-18 C single-seater had been taking part in a training
exercise with a second plane when all radio contact with the pilot was suddenly cut at 4:05 PM , the ministry said in a statement on Monday. "Since then, he has been declared
missing," it said. The suspected crash site is in the area around the Susten Pass in the centre of the mountainous country, and is very difficult to access, the ministry said. Two
helicopters had initially taken part in the search, but as night fell and weather conditions worsened they were forced to land. The ministry said they would resume their flights as soon as
the weather permitted, and that in the meantime, two ground crews of rescue workers and mountaineering experts were continuing the search. "The military command's thoughts are with
the pilot's family," it said, adding that an investigation had been launched. All flights from the Meiringen airbase in the central canton of Bern, where the missing plane had
taken off from, had been grounded until noon (1000 GMT) Monday, it said. The suspected accident would be the latest in a string of crashes to befall the Swiss airforce. In June, two Swiss
Tiger F-5E fighter jets collided during a training flight for an air show in the Netherlands in June. One of the aircraft crashed and burst into flames, but the pilot ejected to safety. And
during another training exercise in October last year, an F/A-18 crashed in an uninhabited part of France's eastern Doubs region. No one was hurt on the ground and the pilot was only
slightly injured after ejecting from the plane. The last deadly fighter jet crash in Switzerland happened in 2013, when a Swiss F/A-18 two-seater slammed into a mountainside in the centre of
the country. The pilot and his passenger, an air force doctor taking part in a training exercise, were both killed. Another of the Swiss Hornets crashed in Crans-Montana in the south of the
country in 1998, killing both pilots. Following the accidents, only 30 of Switzerland's original fleet of 34 F/A-18s remain, the ATS news agency reported.
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