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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