Taipei:Taiwan's air force said today one of its fighter jets carrying a pilot and an engineer went missing during routine training off the island s coast.
The locally-made twin-seater plane disappeared from radar screens 30 minutes after it took off from the central Chingchuankang air base for a training mission in the Taiwan Strait, the air force said.
Two helicopters were scouting the area where the jet was feared to have crashed, it said.
The pilot, Air Force Captain Ku Chih-pin, 29,and aviation engineer Air Force Captain Chen Chien-ting, 31,were listed as missing.
