Iran’s Air Force said the fighter jet had a technical failure after a training
flight when it was landing in an airbase in Dezful, in Iran’s southwestern
province of Khuzestan on Sunday morning.
One of the pilots was martyred in the incident, but the other one managed to
control the jet and make a safe landing beside the runway with minimum damage to
the aircraft, the Air Force said.
Back in June, an Iranian Air Force’s F-7 fighter jet crashed in the central
province of Isfahan, but its two pilots ejected safely before the aircraft
plummeted towards the ground.
In May 2016, a MiG-29 fighter aircraft of Iran’s Air Force had to make an
emergency landing at a military airport in the western city of Hamedan, during
which one of the pilots was killed and the other suffered vertebral injury.
In July 2016, a Sukhoi Su-24 warplane of Iran’s Air Force crashed near Lake
Bakhtegan in the southern province of Fars, but the two pilots on board
survived.
Source: Tasnim