HELSINKI (Reuters) -A fighter jet belonging to the Finnish Air Force crashed in northern Finland on Wednesday, the country’s military said, adding that the pilot had ejected from the aircraft and had been located.
“An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet plunged to the ground in the Rovaniemi airport area,” the Air Force said in a statement.
Finland has 62 Hornet fighter jets bought between 1992 and 2000. The Nordic country in 2021 decided to replace them with Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters.
(Reporting by Essi Lehto, editing by Terje Solsvik)