Baku-APA. Two bodies of the crew members from the F/A-18 fighter jet that crashed Wednesday in central Switzerland have been found, the Swiss Federal Department of Defense said Thursday afternoon, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
It said in a statement that the victims of the accident were a pilot of the Swiss Air Force and a physician of the Institute of Aviation Medicine (IMA) who participated in this training flight as a passenger.
The bodies will be submitted to the forensic expertise and the "black box" has been found, according to the statement.
The fighter jet went down at around 13:50 local time Wednesday near the village of Alpnach, where a military airport is located, in the canton of Obwalden.
This is the second time that this type of fighter jet crashed in Switzerland.
On April 7, 1998, another F/A-18D went down in the canton of Valais in southwestern Switzerland during an interception exercise, killing the two pilots.
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