An Airforce Alfa Jet on a regular mission in the campaign to eliminate terrorists from the country’s North-East went missing on Friday with two crew members on board.

Search and rescue efforts are currently on to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft and crew, according to a statement by the Director Defence Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade.

“An Alpha Jet (NAF 466) belonging to the Nigerian Air Force is missing around Adamawa State,” Olukolade said in the statement released this morning in Abuja.

He added: “The aircraft, with two pilots onboard, left Yola at about 10:45am on 12 September 2014 on a routine operational mission and was expected back by 12:00 noon. Since then all efforts to establish contact with the aircraft have not yielded any positive result. Meanwhile, search and rescue effort is ongoing to establish contact with the crew.”

•Photo shows a Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet in flight.