Japanese defense officials say they recovered the remains of one of two crew members who were missing since their military training aircraft crashed earlier this week.

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force agency continued its search Thursday for two crew members and their plane which crashed Wednesday somewhere in the country's Aichi Prefecture.

A Japanese air force plane has crashed soon after taking off for a training flight in central Japan, the top government spokesperson said. The T-4 training plane belonging to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force had taken off from Komaki Air Base,