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US Navy P-8A and Destroyer Join Search for Japanese F-35A Pilot
U.S. Navy P-8A and Destroyer Join JSDF Search for Japanese F-35A Pilot
A US Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft taking off. A P-8 aircraft and a US Navy destroyer have joined the search for the missing Japanese F-35 pilot. (USN file photo)
The F-35A lost radar contact approximately 85 miles east of Misawa Air Base.
A P-8A joined JASDF aircraft and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force ships searching the area overnight.
Additional flights are continuing today.
Guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) is sailing to the search area now.
U.S. 7th
The P-8A aircraft are assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 and Patrol Squadron (VP) 5. Both squadrons are homeported in Jacksonville, Fla. and are on rotational deployments to 7th Fleet out of Misawa, Japan.
Stethem is forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.
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