TOKYO: Eight people have been rescued after a US military aircraft with 11 people aboard crashed into the Philippine Sea en route to an aircraft carrier, Japan said.
Japanese and American rescuers scrambled to reach the downed aircraft yesterday in seas off the remote Japanese reef of Okinotori, in the latest accident to hit US armed forces in East Asia.
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