It was the seventh military plane crash since Sept. 13. The six earlier crashes happened within a week and led to a one-day break in training flights for a safety review by all the services.
The Navy jet went down around 4 p.m., about 65 miles east of Elizabeth City, N.C., said Coast Guard Petty Officer Harry Craft.
Craft said a Coast Guard helicopter rescued the plane's radar intercept officer.
"We have recovered the backseater and he supposedly was in good shape, and we're still on scene now looking for the pilot," Craft said.
The plane was training with another aircraft when it went down, said Mike Maus, a Navy spokesperson.
Both crew members ejected from the plane, Maus said.
The fighter was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station at Virginia Beach. The Navy said three of its ships were within 40 miles of the crash site and, along with aircraft from the Navy and Coast Guard, were participating in the search.
Lt. Joe Walker, a Navy Atlantic Fleet air force spokesperson, said the plane belonged to fighter squadron 101 at Oceana.
Children get better marks and are less likely to repeat a grade or be expelled if their fathers are involved in school activities, the study concluded. Among children whose fathers alone were highly involved at their schools, almost half brought home report cards bearing mostly A's.
The survey-based report, released at the White House yesterday by Vice President Al Gore, found that fathers' involvement made a substantial difference whether or not the dads lived with their children.
In spite of a burgeoning movement among middle-class fathers to involve themselves in their children's lives, more than half of all fathers in two-parent families - and 82 percent of fathers who do not live with their children - have no significant involvement in their children's schools.
The measure's backers - Sens. John McCain, (R-Ariz.), and Russell D. Feingold, (D-Wis.), are continuing efforts to create momentum for their cause. And they hope that when the legislative dust settles, they will have made good their pledge to "categorically shut down the Washington 'soft-money' machine,'' referring to the largely unregulated contributions to the parties that are central to the current fund-raising controversies.
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