Military Plane Crash Kills Two People In Algeria
An Algerian fighter jet has crashed during an overnight training exercise, killing its two crew members.
According to the defence ministry, the Russian-made Sukhoi SU-24
plane went down in an uninhabited farming area in the province of
Tiaret, around 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of Algiers.
The pilot and co-pilot were killed during the “night-time training
flight”, it said, adding that it was investigating the causes of the
accident. It was the latest in a string of aviation disasters over
recent years that have claimed hundreds of lives in the North African
country.
In April an Ilyushin IL-76 transport plane slammed into a field near
an airbase south of Algiers, killing 257 people Algeria’s deadliest such
incident in 20 years. It was mostly carrying army personnel and their
family members on their way back to their barracks in the country’s far
south.
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