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A Taiwanese air force pilot has been killed and another is missing after their fighter jets disappeared in a suspected midair collision off the island\u2019s southern coast, officials said.<\/p>\n

The crash on Monday was the third such incident in the past half-year, at a time when the island\u2019s armed forces are having to intercept Chinese aircraft on an almost daily basis.<\/p>\n

The two F-5E jets disappeared from radar at about 3pm (07:00 GMT) some 2.6km (1.6 miles) off the coast of rural southern Pingtung County, the National Rescue Command Centre said.<\/p>\n

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It added that the fighters, each with one pilot on board, crashed into the sea off the island\u2019s southeastern coast after they apparently collided in midair during a training mission.<\/p>\n

One of the pilots was found unconscious in the sea but could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Rescuers were still searching for the remaining pilot.<\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said it was working on a statement, and provided no other immediate comment. The official Central News Agency said the air force had now grounded the F-5 fleet that operates from the Chihhang airbase.<\/p>\n

Recent accidents<\/h3>\n

Another F-5\u00a0crashed in October, killing the pilot. The\u00a0following month\u00a0a much more modern F-16 crashed off\u00a0Taiwan\u2019s east coast, whose pilot also died.<\/p>\n

In January last year, Taiwan\u2019s top military official was among eight people killed when a helicopter carrying them to visit soldiers crashed in a mountainous area near the capital Taipei.<\/p>\n

While Taiwan\u2019s air force is well trained and equipped, mostly with US-made equipment, it is dwarfed by China\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Beijing views the democratic island as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under Chinese control.<\/p>\n

Under President Xi Jinping, China has become markedly more hostile towards Taiwan and last year Chinese jets made a record 380 incursions into its defence zone, with some analysts warning that tensions between the two sides are at their highest since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

The incursions force outgunned Taiwan to regularly scramble their own jets and keep pilots on a round-the-clock war footing that takes its toll on ageing aircraft and those flying them.<\/p>\n

The US-built F-5E is an older generation fighter with a design that dates back to the 1960s.<\/p>\n

It first entered service in Taiwan in the late 1970s and has been mostly been retired from front-line activities, though some are still used for training and as back-up for the main fleet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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