Indian-American marine killed in jet crash in UK

An Indian-American marine has been killed after a single-seat aircraft he was flying crashed shortly after take-off near a US airfield in England.
The crash occurred on Wednesday when San Diego-based Major Taj Sareen was piloting his F/A-18C Hornet to Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in the US after a six-month deployment in the Middle East, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
34-year-old Sareen, a F/A-18 Hornet aircraft pilot was identified on Thursday.
"The aircraft went down near the Lakenheath Royal Air Force base," the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing was quoted as saying by the daily.
The aviation wing is headquartered at Miramar.

The Hornet crashed shortly after take-off, descending into farmland about six miles northwest of Lakenheath in the Cambridgeshire county of eastern England, it said.

Sareen was the only casualty, British officials said.
They also said he was ejected from the jet, although Marine officials have not verified that detail.
Other personnel from the "Red Devils" Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 have returned to Miramar this week, concluding their deployment in the Central Command area of military operations, the report said.
Sareen had deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and was an instructor with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101.

He was a native of Hillsborough. He was commissioned in the Corps in 2005. He was graduated from the University of San Francisco in 2004.