Coroner: Man, adult son on plane that collided with F-16

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. -- A coroner says a man and his adult son were on board a small plane that collided with an F-16 fighter jet over South Carolina.

Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury said Wednesday that authorities have recovered the body of 68-year-old Michael Johnson, the passenger.

They are still searching for the body of his son, 30-year-old Joseph Johnson, who was piloting the plane.

Federal investigators and local authorities have been combing through a wide swath of rural, sparsely populated land as they try to determine what caused the collision.

The small Cessna was completely destroyed.

Officials from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter said in a news release that the jet's pilot ejected from his aircraft safely.

An Air Force spokesman confirmed to ABC News that the pilot of the F-16, identified as Maj. Aaron Johnson, ejected from the plane and is now being evaluated at Joint Base Charleston's medical clinic. The plane and pilot came from Shaw Air Force Base, roughly 100 miles north west of Charleston.

Capt. Robert McCullough, of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, said divers from his agency had been looking for the bodies in the Cooper River. The F-16 crashed about 5 miles away, according to McCullough.

The Air Force also said that a "team of investigators will convene to determine the cause of the accident. No further information is available at this time."

The Associated Press contributed to this story.