HANOI: A military search plane in Vietnam carrying nine people lost contact Thursday while it was looking for a missing pilot whose jet fighter went down off the coast this week, state media reported.

The aircraft disappeared from the radar 40 nautical miles southwest of Bach Long Vy island, a small island in the Gulf of Tonkin that sits halfway between mainland Vietnam and China’s Hainan island, state-run VNExpress reported.

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