Mianwali Incident: Pilots escape jet crash safely: PAF

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Air Force aircraft crashed during a training mission on Wednesday but pilots managed to bail out safely, an air force spokesman said. “It was an FT-7 training aircraft. It crashed near Mianwali soon after take-off from the base,” the spokesman told AFP. A woman trainee pilot and the instructor managed to escape safely, he said. It was the third air force jet to crash in training in three months. Two pilots were killed in the other incidents and a helicopter crash last June killed four military personnel.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26^th, 2012.