Tokyo (AFP) - Rescuers have plucked eight people to safety south of Japan after a US Navy aircraft with 11 people on board came down in the Philippine Sea, the latest accident to hit American armed forces in East Asia.
Japanese and American forces scrambled to reach the downed C2-A "Greyhound" aircraft in waters off the remote uninhabited Japanese reef of Okinotori on Wednesday.
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