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The F-16V fighter plane numbered 6650 at the Chiayi Base of the Taiwan Air Force crashed into the sea on the afternoon of 11 July during training at the Shuixi Range in the Dongshi Sea beyond Chiayi County. "Lianhe Bao" and other Taiwan media reported that this morning (12th) several fishermen successively found wreckage on the beach 1 km outside the outpost on the north bank of the East Shi'aogu Wetland in Jia County, confirming that the plane should have disintegrated. At 11:19 a.m., Taiwan's defense department reported that the wreckage of the aircraft body had been recovered, but no pilot had been found.
Screenshot of Taiwan media report
According to reports, the F-16V fighter trained in the Dongshixiang Shuixi Range on the 11th, the landing position was on the north side of the range, and the location where the wreckage was found today was also near the range, which was 1 km to the outer sea on the north side of the embankment, which is currently shallow.
According to the China Times News Network, at about 10:30 a.m. on the 12th, some fishermen picked up the wreckage of the suspected rear tail and handed it to the military. The fisherman said that he walked along the road to help find it, it looked like there was a camouflage pattern, so he picked it up, it felt like a machine board, so he picked it up and handed it to the military. Another Aogu wetland guide also picked up the fragments, which he guessed should be the position of the belly of the machine.
At present, the task of searching for debris on the embankment near the embankment has been completed, and it has been confirmed that the wreckage of the fighter was found, the pilot Chen Yi is still missing, and the Navy's underwater operation team has sent personnel to search for it; in addition, the helicopter has also fished 2 search and rescue personnel in the sea about 100 meters from the Water Creek Range.
Yahoo News reported that near noon, patrol members surnamed Cai found suspected aircraft wreckage on the shore; Taiwan's "Executive Yuan" search and rescue command center said on the morning of the 12th that the defense department helicopter was suspected of finding aircraft wreckage and tires at 10:48 a.m., and was notified by the defense department at 11:19 a.m.
Rescuers continue to search and rescue (Source: Taiwan Zhongshi News Network)
An F-16V single-seat fighter of the Chiayi Wing of the Taiwan Air Force, numbering 6650, crashed into the sea while performing ground attack training in the airspace around the Shuixi Range in Dongshi Township on the afternoon of 11 July.
From the evening of the 11th to the early morning of this morning, Taiwan Air Force planes continued to fire flares to illuminate the wrecked sea surface to facilitate helicopter searches; on the morning of the 12th, additional ground troops were dispatched to search for suspicious items along the north embankment of the Dongshi'aogu Wetland, and coast guard personnel took rubber rafts to the sea to cooperate with helicopter search and rescue.