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Taiwan Air Force F-16 Fighter Crashes in Mountains During Drills - Reports

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The drills began on Monday with troops practicing thwarting a Chinese "invasion." The similar incident occurred in last November, when a Mirage jet with a pilot on board mysteriously disappeared.

Taiwan news media outlet reported, citing sources from the Ministry of National Defense, that some pieces of the crashed aircraft had been discovered in mountains of New Taipei city. However, the pilot remains missing.

"One F-16 single-seat fighter went missing at 13:43 local time [05:43 GMT] while performing tasks set during the military exercises on Monday, a search and rescue operation has now been launched," the statement read, as quoted by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

The Taiwan military added that it was making its best to search for the missing pilot, Major Wu Yen-ting.

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