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The U.S. military found the body of an American pilot while searching Tuesday for two Marine fighter jets that went missing while flying in support of operations in Iraq, the military said.
The brief statement did not say whether either of the jets had been found or where the body had been recovered.
The two Marine F/A-18 Hornets from the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier went missing at 10:10 p.m. Monday (2:10 p.m. EDT), the military said. There were no initial indications of hostile fire in the area at the time.
Navy officials at the Pentagon did not release any information beyond the military statement.
NBC News, citing US Navy officials, reported that the jets had been involved in a possible mid-air collision.
The F/A-18 Hornet jet has different versions, one of which is flown by a single pilot while another version of the aircraft carries two crew members.
(China Daily/Agencies May 3, 2005)
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