US Military Grounds F-16s After Crash off Japan

A squadron of U.S. F-16 fighter jets in Japan has been grounded for safety checks after one of their aircraft crashed in the Pacific, military officials said Thursday.
The crash comes as an uproar in Japan has been raised over the deployment of the U.S. Marine Corps' latest transport plane, the MV-22 Osprey, to the southern island of Okinawa. Two Ospreys have crashed since April and swelling opposition to their deployment has become a major political headache for Tokyo and Washington.
The F-16 with the 35th Fighter Squadron at Misawa Air Base crashed Sunday about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island. It was the first crash of an F-16 out of Misawa since 2002.


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U.S. F-16 Fighter Crashes in Pacific near Kuril Islands

F-16 Falcon fighter


A U.S. F-16 Falcon fighter crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Russia’s Kuril Islands on Sunday, a spokesman for the Russian Border Guard Service in the Far East said.
“The Kamchatsky territorial naval rescue center reported at 8:30 p.m. local time [8:30 a.m. GMT] that an aircraft was in distress over the Pacific Ocean near the northern Kurils,” the spokesman said.
It turned out later, he said, that the aircraft was a U.S. Air Force F-16 Falcon fighter.

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