Baku, Azerbaijan, July 15
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
An Iranian military official has announced that one of its training-operational fighter jets has crashed, killing the pilot and co-pilot.
The crash took place on July 15, at 11:15 local time (GMT +4:30 hours) near Lake Bakhtegan in the country's southern Fars Province, Hossein Mohammmadi, a local air force commander said, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
The F-4 fighter jet belonged to the air force base at the southern city of Bandar Abbas, he said, adding that the crash occurred a few minutes after taking off from the Shiraz city air base.
Experts were sent to the incident location and currently are investigating the cause of the crash, Mohammmadi noted.
Edited by CN