Bodies, black box found after Swiss fighter jet crash

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of the two people onboard a Swiss army fighter jet that crashed into a mountainside, as well as the aircraft's black box, the defence ministry said on Thursday.

"Both people onboard the F/A-18 fighter jet that crashed yesterday have been found dead," the ministry said in a statement.

The F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet was one of two that took off in the canton of Bern on Wednesday for a training mission, but it crashed shortly after into a cliff overlooking a branch of Lake Lucerne.

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