translated from Spanish: United States declared dead 5 marines after air shock in Japan

Tokyo (AP) – the United States Army said Tuesday was declared dead five soldiers missing after their refuelling plane collided with a fighter off the South coast of Japan week to pass. The search and rescue operation was suspended. The five deceased were on Board of a KC-130 Hercules of refuelling which collided with an F/A-18 Hornet during a routine workout last Thursday. The two aircraft fell to the Sea South of the Japanese island of Shikoku.Los two F/A-18 crew were rescued after the accident. One of them died and the other was stable at the time of the rescue, said the Navy.

In this file image, taken October 13, 2016, provided by the United States Navy, two F/A-18 d Hornet Squadron 533 approaches a KC-130J refueling during an air exercise at an undisclosed location. December 6, 2018, two U.S. aircraft crashed in the Pacific Ocean to Japan after a collision in the air. (Cpl. Trever Statz/US Navy via AP)

The search, involving Australian, and Japanese forces were suspended Tuesday and the cause of the accident is being investigated, added the note. The identities of the five persons declared dead will be published one time notification to their families. The pilot of the late fighter had been identified before as Captain Jahmar Resilard, aged 28 and from Miramar, Florida.
“We know that this difficult decision was made once ran out of all the resources in the vigorous pursuit of the marines,” said the Commander of the squadron that belonged to the crew of the aircraft, Lieutenant Colonel Mitchell T. Maury, in a statement.

The release of the Navy said it was not confirmed if the two aircraft were carrying out a refuelling operation at the time of the accident. The clash is the latest in a series of recent accidents of members of the U.S. armed forces near Japon.el month last, a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet took off from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and crashed in the sea southwest of the Japanese island of Okinawa, but its two pilots were rescued safely. In mid-October, a MH-60 Seahawk also of Ronald Reagan crashed into the Philippine Sea shortly after take-off, leaving about 12 sailors wounded. More than 50,000 U.S. military are stationed in Japan under a bilateral security agreement.

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