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Japanese ASDF jet missing over SW Japan, about 6 aboard

Xinhua, April 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

A plane of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) went missing at around 2:35 p.m. local time Wednesday over Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima, with about six people on board, according to local reports.

The U-125 jet took off at around 1:15 p.m. from an airbase at the Kanoya city in the prefecture and its image disappeared on radar at around 2:35 p.m. about 11 km north of the base, said the public broadcaster NHK.

The SDF dispatched helicopters to search the missing plane. Enditem