PAF training aircraft crashes in Swabi
Bboth pilots ejected safely
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SWABI:
A trainer aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) crashed on the outskirts of Swabi on Monday morning. Fortunately, both the pilots survived the incident.
Two PAF training planes, which had taken off from Risalpur Air Base were on test flights over Swabi district near Zaida town when one of the aircrafts developed a technical fault and crashed into a tobacco field near Shah Mansoor Town.
Fortunately, both the pilots managed to eject successfully before the plane crashed. One of the pilots, Hawas Khan, landed in the nearby open fields, while second pilot landed on the roof a house near Zaida Police Station. Both of them sustained injuries.
People from the surrounding area rushed to the site and shifted the injured pilots to Bacha Khan Medical Complex. Later on they were airlifted via PAF helicopter to Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar.
Later on, the local fire brigade put out the fire erupted in the plane following the crash.
On May 8, a military helicopter had also crashed killing seven people on board including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, wives of the Indonesian and Malaysian ambassadors died along with two pilots and a technician.
Read: Indonesian ambassador to Pakistan dies 11 days after Naltar crash
The envoys were part of a large group of foreign dignitaries being ferried to the inauguration of a ski resort chairlift in the town of Naltar.
A trainer aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) crashed on the outskirts of Swabi on Monday morning. Fortunately, both the pilots survived the incident.
Two PAF training planes, which had taken off from Risalpur Air Base were on test flights over Swabi district near Zaida town when one of the aircrafts developed a technical fault and crashed into a tobacco field near Shah Mansoor Town.
Fortunately, both the pilots managed to eject successfully before the plane crashed. One of the pilots, Hawas Khan, landed in the nearby open fields, while second pilot landed on the roof a house near Zaida Police Station. Both of them sustained injuries.
People from the surrounding area rushed to the site and shifted the injured pilots to Bacha Khan Medical Complex. Later on they were airlifted via PAF helicopter to Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar.
Later on, the local fire brigade put out the fire erupted in the plane following the crash.
On May 8, a military helicopter had also crashed killing seven people on board including the ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines, wives of the Indonesian and Malaysian ambassadors died along with two pilots and a technician.
Read: Indonesian ambassador to Pakistan dies 11 days after Naltar crash
The envoys were part of a large group of foreign dignitaries being ferried to the inauguration of a ski resort chairlift in the town of Naltar.