Emergency vehicles on site after Finnish fighter jet crashes in Arctic town

A Finnish F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet crashed Wednesday near the Rovaniemi airport in Finland's Arctic north, but the pilot was rescued after ejecting, the armed forces said. 

No details were available about the cause of the crash which occurred "in the Rovaniemi airport area" at 11;00 am local time. The Finnish air force's fleet of F/A-18 Hornets were delivered by Boeing between 1995 and 2000 and are due to be decommissioned by 2030, replaced by F-35s from rival US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin.