More on the US military aircraft lost off the coast of Japan

Headline earlier without much detail:

• US Marine F-18 reported crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan

(200 miles off the Japanese coast)

More details coming through, not good news at all. US official comment:

• Six US Marines missing
• two Marine Corps aircraft may have collided mid-air
• during a refuelling exercise

Japanese officials said one marine had been rescued (6 still missing)