Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Two U.S. military planes crashed in the air during a training mission off Japan's coast Thursday morning with two Marines rescued, the Marines and the Japanese Defense Ministry said.
While refueling in the air, a two-seater F/A-18D Hornet and a KC-130J tanker with five aboard crashed about 200 miles off Iwakuni, Japan, at 2 a.m., the USMC said in a news release.