AlQa'dah 19, 1435, September 14, 2014, SPA -- The Nigerian military said on Sunday one of its fighter jets that was operating in a northeast state where the armed forces are fighting Boko Haram militants had gone missing, Reuters reported. A search and rescue operation was underway for the Nigerian air force Alpha jet which was on a routine operational mission on Friday over Adamawa state when contact was lost with the aircraft, the Nigerian armed forces said in a statement. The statement gave no more details and there was no other information available on whether the plane, which had left an air base at the Adamawa state capital Yola and had a crew of two, had crashed or been shot down.
