A pilot and an assistant pilot were killed when a trainer plane of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Punjab province Thursday afternoon, officials said.
A spokesperson of Pakistan Air Force said that the trainer Mirage aircraft crashed during a training mission in Qadir Abad area of Mandi Bahauddin, a district in the Punjab, Xinhua reported.
District police officer Ameer Taimoor said that the plane took off from Sargodha airbase with two pilots on board and crashed due to some technical fault.
He said that police rushed to the crash site and cordoned off the wreckage of the plane.
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