Pilot Missing After US Air Force F-15 Fighter Jet Crashes Off UK Coast

A fighter jet from the U.S. Air Force crashes off the UK coast Monday morning during a training mission.

An F-15 fighter jet flies over the Atlantic ocean as it prepares a mid-air refueling process on May 27, 2012. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times

A U.S. Air Force fighter jet crashed off the UK coast Monday morning during a training mission, the 48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs confirmed in a news release.

The crash happened at about 9:40 a.m. (4:40 a.m. ET) and prompted a major search and rescue operation to retrieve the pilot in the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire.