Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is recovering from heart surgery, days after his 82nd birthday.

A US Navy jet crashed during an air show in South Carolina, plunging into a neighbourhood of small homes and caravans and killing the pilot.

The crash site of a missing US Navy jet with four aviators aboard has been found, but none of the passenger’s survived the crash, US Air Force Special Operations Command spokesman Matt Durhan said today.

The US Navy is searching for a twin-engine jet and four airmen who went missing when their training flight vanished en route from Tennessee 20 minutes after takeoff.