CHARLESTON, S.C. — Crews searched more than 750 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean this morning for an F-16 fighter pilot whose plane hit another fighter mid-air during night training exercises off the South Carolina coast.

The two planes collided Thursday around 8:30 p.m. about 40 miles off Folly Beach, near Charleston, said Senior Master Sgt. Brad Fallin at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter. Both jets, based at Shaw, are single-seat aircraft.

One jet, piloted by Capt. Lee Bryant, landed safely at Charleston Air Force Base, Fallin said. Bryant was examined at the base but had suffered no injuries and was released, Fallin said. The spokesman did not know where Bryant was early Friday.

Search crews had not yet found the missing plane or its pilot, Capt. Nicholas Giglio, Fallin said.

It was cloudy and raining with 3-foot seas at the time of the crash, the Coast Guard said. There were occasional showers early today as the Coast Guard searched with a helicopter, a C-130 airplane, a cutter and two smaller boats.