00:00Late Tuesday night, an F-16 fighter jet crashed east of Hualien during a routine training mission.
00:06The pilot is believed to have ejected, though that hasn't been confirmed.
00:10The Defense Ministry says Xin, the jet's pilot, took off at 6.17 p.m.,
00:15but reported losing visibility in the clouds not long after.
00:18He then said he was rapidly dropping in altitude
00:21and mentioned ejecting three times before his aircraft disappeared from radar.
00:25They say a possible malfunction in a jet's computer could have caused the pilot to lose his sense of orientation,
00:32despite passing a required flight medical check and survival training and the suitable weather conditions.
00:38The F-16 has four big killers.
00:40The air is the air, the air is the air, the air is the air, the air is the air is the air, the air is the air is the air.
00:47The last one is the air is the air is the air is the air.
00:50So he has to do it.
00:51The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
00:54Authorities have deployed multiple rescue crews to the search zone.
00:58But the pilot's locator beacon is not sending back signals,
01:02raising doubt about whether he's successfully ejected.
01:05President Lai Qingde has promised that his government will do all it can do to bring the pilot home.
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