U.S. F-16 fighter crashes into sea off South Korea, pilot rescued

A U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed into the Yellow Sea off South Korea on Monday during a routine training flight, and the pilot rescued by South Korean maritime authorities after ejecting from the plane, according to the U.S. Air Force.The jet, assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing, left Kunsan Air Base located in Gunsan, a city south of Seoul, and experienced "an in-flight emergency" at approximately 8:43 a.m. before crashing into the sea, the U.S. Air Force said in a press release.It said the pilot is "awake and in stable condition," and is "being returned" to the base, and added that neither th…READ FULL ARTICLE