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Search Narrows For Lost F-35

April 24 2019

Japan

Efforts to locate a Japanese F-35 jet that crashed into the Pacific Ocean two weeks ago may be getting closer to the wreckage, reports CNN. 

Investigators have narrowed the search area to a depth of about 1,500 feet (450 m), much shallower than previous speculation that the jet may have gone down in waters as deep as 5,000 feet (1,500 m), a U.S. Navy official told the news station. 

On Tuesday, Tokyo announced that it had chartered the Kaimei, a deep-sea research vessel, to join in...

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