Vietnamese state media said a Russian Su-22 fighter jet belonging to the Vietnamese People’s Air Force crashed during training in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, killing one pilot.
The Vietnam News Agency reported that the crashed plane had taken part in a training flight around noon before crashing at a military airfield in Yen Bai province.
“The pilot was instructed to eject from the aircraft. But he tried to keep the machine. and died,” the Vietnam News Agency reported. without specifying the cause of the fall
Although Vietnam’s civil aviation sector has a high safety record, But accidents involving military aircraft are common.
In October 2016, a military helicopter crashed in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province. Three pilots were killed and there were also three other accidents involving military aircraft earlier this year. causing 11 deaths
and in one of the country’s worst military accidents At least 19 people were killed after a Russian Mi-171 helicopter crashed. Agreed in Hanoi during a training flight in 2014.
