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.
[Xinhua]
6/4/16
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Japan's Ministry of Defense (MOD) said on Thursday it had found the wreckage of an Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) jet that disappeared from radar a day earlier in a mountainous region in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan...
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