A pilot is missing after a US F-16C warplane crashed near Trier in southwest Germany, US military authorities said today.
The authorities said the plane, from the US Air Force's 52nd Squadron, had taken off from Spangdahlem military base near here shortly after 8.00 p.m. last night and the control tower had lost contact almost immediately.
The aircraft crashed some three kilometres northeast of the airport. The cause is not yet known.
AFP