Army aviation trainer plane crashes in Quetta

QUETTA: A Pakistani military aircraft crashed on a training exercise over mountains in Muslim Bagh area on Wednesday.

The pilot of the plane Captain Zahoor and co-pilot Masoor were killed in the incident.

The two-seater trainer aircraft was on a routine flight in southwestern Balochistan province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, the military said.

“The aircraft crashed due to technical fault,” it said.

A team consisting of senior army aviation officers has been created to investigate the crash.

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