The U.S. Marine Corps has identified a fighter pilot who died after his jet collided with an aerial-refueling tanker earlier in the week, while five other marines remained missing as of Saturday.
The Marine Corps said Capt. Jahmar Resilard, 28, was pronounced dead after his body was found during search and rescue operations off the coast of Kochi Prefecture on Thursday, hours after the collision between his F/A-18 and a KC-130 tanker. One marine was rescued and taken to a hospital.
Resilard, of Miramar, Florida, was an F/A-18 pilot with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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