An American fighter jet crashed Tuesday on a training flight in South Korea, and the condition of the lone pilot was not immediately known, the U.S. Air Force said.

The F16 belonging to the 35th Fighter Squadron was on a routine mission in southern South Korea, the Air Force said in a news release.

Sgt. Robert Wollenberg, a spokesman at Kunsan Air Base, said it was not clear whether the pilot had ejected before the crash.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency, however, said the pilot ejected but that his condition was unknown. It said the plane plunged into the sea off the western coast near Kunsan, about 90 miles south of Seoul.

The cause of the crash was under investigation. The pilot's name was not released.

It was the fourth reported crash of U.S. military planes this year in South Korea, where the United States keeps about 37,000 troops.

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