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November 13, 2000 

TOKYO (AP) — Two U.S. military jets collided over waters off northern Japan early Monday, the Japanese Coast Guard said. One pilot was rescued but the other was missing.The F-16s collided off Oshima Island, 410 miles north of Tokyo, said Toshifumi Nishikawa, spokesman for the Coast Guard based in Otaru, on nearby Hokkaido Island. 

Both the pilots apparently ejected from their planes and one of them was rescued from the water by the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, said Toshimi Okimoto, a JASDF spokesman. There were no other people aboard. The survivor's name and condition were not immediately known, Okimoto said. The other pilot was still missing, and a search — including U.S. forces and Japanese Coast Guard helicopters and ships — was under way. The two jets, based at Misawa U.S. Air Base, were participating in a joint U.S.-Japan military exercise, the U.S. military said in a statement. The U.S. statement said the condition of the pilots was unknown, and provided no further details.