{
  "id": 8194402,
  "title": "Editor's Choice: 'Global Hawk missing.' On the alert in Nikkei Asia's newsroom",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/editors-choice-global-hawk-missing-on-the-alert-in-nikkei-asias",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T05:24:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nikkei Asia",
    "slug": "nikkei-asia",
    "url": "https://asia.nikkei.com/editor-s-picks/editor-in-chief-s-picks/editor-s-choice-global-hawk-missing.-on-the-alert-in-nikkei-asia-s-newsroom"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Tuesday afternoon, the Japan Self-Defense Force s Global Hawk aircraft went missing off the coast of Tottori prefecture. The loss of one of Japan s three Global Hawks is significant, but the cause is still being investigated. The aircraft is capable of continuing to fly if communications are lost and can return to a predetermined location autonomously. The SDF is still probing the cause, so caution remains warranted.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}