Story highlights
- Pilot ejects safely, U.S. military says
- U.S. soldier killed in joint U.S.-Afghan mission in Marjah, Afghanistan
The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by coalition forces, according to a U.S. military statement. The pilot is under medical evaluation. Coalition forces are securing the crash site, the statement said.
The cause of the accident will be investigated, the Pentagon said.
Also, one U.S. soldier was killed and two were wounded during a joint U.S.-Afghan Special Operations mission Tuesday in Marjah, with fighting still underway, the Pentagon said.
A U.S. official told CNN that a quick-reaction force had been launched to try to rescue those forces on the ground there. The official could not say from where the force was launched or how many people were involved.
The service member who was killed came under fire as part of a train-and-assist mission in Marjah in Helmand province, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.
