Search widens for U.S. Marine Corps pilot missing after ejecting from jet

Cold water this time of year.

Hope he's found quickly, alive and well

How can they not find a pilot? The plane would've went down nearby with tracking beacons and fancy technology and the pilot would be floating with flashing lights on his jumpsuit like the normal life jackets in all passenger planes plus extra stuff to track..Even if he hit the canopy like goose and was knock out they would still have the technology to track them. How are they going to find pilots that get downed in enemy territory if they can't find this guy? I bet the Gov would be able to find me if I flash my 100yen LED light from DAISO at a few of their planes.

If USA wasn't in Japan, this wouldn't happen.

The Marine Corps said the aircraft was assigned to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa.

Jeez AP the aircraft is part of Marine Aircraft Group 12 Iwakuni, Japan. Don't tie this with Okinawa, you'll have all the psychotic anti-base minorities using this as fuel to their fire.

Valance, the sea conditions play a huge role in the ability to find him. Strong currents can pull him miles away from the last place they tracked the aircraft. Choppy seas can make it like trying to find the back of an earring in the grass.

This bland article is stripped of almost anything that could be used by anyone with an axe to grind.

Sadly it makes for very poor fare for the average intelligent reader too.

With dawn, they widened the search... let's hope that does the trick.

I hope the pilot is found soon.