Two US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets have collided mid-air off the North Carolina coast during a routine training mission, hospitalizing four servicemen.
The jets were based in Virginia Beach and accidentally collided at 10:40am off the coast of Cape Hatteras, officials announced on Thursday.
Three of the servicemen were unharmed, while one suffered a minor leg injury, Geoffrey Pagels, a US Coast Guard rescue specialist, told NBC News.
A commercial fishing ship pulled the four survivors out of the Atlantic Ocean to safety. They were later flown by a Coast Guard hospital to a hospital in Norfolk.
Officials added that an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident.
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