US jets go missing in Iraq
2005-05-03 07:58
Baghdad - The United States military said on Tuesday it had lost contact with two jets flying in support of operations in Iraq.
The status of the two US Marine F/A-18 Hornet aircraft and their crew was not immediately known, the military said in a statement.
Contact was lost at 22:10 on Monday, the statement said. There were no initial indications of hostile fire in the area at the time.
Search efforts were under way.
The US military said it had no further information to release, and that remained the case at 08:15 on Tuesday.
- AP