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.

Two crew are missing after the T-4 training aircraft operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force crashed after taking off from Komaki Air Base, in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi, officials said.