23/07/2012 11:47
American F-16 fighter jet went down
An American F-16 fighter jet went down in a Russian exclusive economic zone near the Kuril Islands on Sunday. The pilot successfully ejected before the jet plummeted into the waters below.
“The Kamchatsky territorial naval rescue center reported at 8:30 am local time (8:30 pm GMT) that an aircraft was in distress over the Pacific Ocean near the northern Kurils,” Andrey Orlov, a spokesman for the Russian Border Guard Service in the Far East said.
Later on it turned out to be an American F-16.
F-16 Falcon is a US fourth-generation multirole light jet fighter. The aircraft is in service with the Air Forces of 25 countries.