Tornado jet fighter crashes into the sea off Scotland

Coastguards said they were alerted to an incident at Loch Ewe, near Gairloch, Wester Ross, at 2.45pm.

An RAF spokeswoman said: "We are aware of an incident involving an RAF aircraft off the coast of Scotland.

"We will update you as more information becomes available."

Two crew from RAF Lossiemouth, who are understood to have ejected from the Tornado jet before it came down, have been airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

A Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) tug, the Anglian Earl, has also gone to the site of the incident.

A spokeswoman for the MCA said they received a Mayday request from Kinloss at 2.43pm.

A Coastguard helicopter was scrambled six miles north-west of Rubha Reidh, close to the entrance of Loch Ewe.

She said: "Two people were found in the water in a one-man life raft.

"They were winched from the water to the helicopter and taken to hospital."

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