US fighter jet crashes into waters off South Korea

The pilot of the US military plane, the latest to crash in the Asia Pacific region, has been rescued. A US military fighter jet has ditched into the Yellow Sea off South Korea. The F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing was on a routine training flight on Monday when it experienced an “in-flight emergency” that sent it into the Yellow Sea, the US Air Force said in a statement. The pilot has been rescued after ejecting, it said. “The pilot ejected the aircraft. The pilot has been...