Japan’s air force chief has confirmed the deaths of two service members whose training aircraft crashed last week

Japanese defense officials say they recovered the remains of one of two crew members who were missing since their military training aircraft crashed earlier this week.

In April, 2024, two SH-60K navy reconnaissance helicopters crashed during nighttime anti-submarine training near Torishima island, about 600 kilometers south of Tokyo, leaving all eight crewmembers dead. In 2023, an army UH-60JA Black Hawk helicopter on a reconnaissance mission crashed off a southern island of Miyako, with the loss of 10 crew.

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force agency continued its search Thursday for two crew members and their plane which crashed Wednesday somewhere in the country's Aichi Prefecture.

Two crew are missing after the T-4 training aircraft operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force crashed after taking off from Komaki Air Base, in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi, officials said.

An urgent search is underway for two crew members reported missing after a Japanese air force training aircraft crashed following takeoff.