Two single-seat Marine Corps F/-A-18 Hornets have collided off the coast of San Diego, California, with one pilot ejecting and the other aircraft landing at nearby Naval Air Station North Island.

Marine jets collide off Southern California coast

The F/A-18 Hornet, shown during a flight in October 2015 at the Miramar Air Show, is the backbone fighter jet for the Navy and Marine Corps. (Chadd Cady / Union-Tribune)
Two Marine pilots survived a midair collision Wednesday morning off the coast of Southern California.

One of the pilots ejected safely into the water following the 11:43 a.m. accident and the other made an emergency landing at the nearby North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, Marine officials said.

Coast Guard and Navy search-and-rescue teams received a mayday call at 12:11 p.m. Sailors from the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson scrambled to retrieve the Marine pilot 30 minutes later, according to a Marine Corps statement.

Both pilots were reported as being in stable condition as of Wednesday afternoon, and the cause of the crash is under investigation.

Their single-seat F/A-18 Hornets belonged to the "Black Knights" of Fighter Attack Squadron 314 stationed at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station.

The Wednesday accident follows a string of recent mishaps involving F-18 fighters.

On Oct. 25, an F-18C Hornet crashed and burned at the end of a routine training flight at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms. The pilot ejected safely.

A Blue Angels F/A-18C jet crashed near Smyrna, Tennessee on June 2, killing its aviator, Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss.

And two F/A-18F Super Hornets collided off the Atlantic Coast on May 26 near Naval Air Station Oceana. Four aviators were rescued.