TEHRAN – An Iranian fighter jet crashed during a training mission in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Monday, leaving two crew members and a passerby dead.
Reports said that the F-5 fighter jet crashed into the wall of a school in the city’s central district of Monajem. It was heading back to the base from a training mission when it developed technical problem and went down.
A fire broke out at the place of the incident and it was doused by the firefighters.
According to the state-run news agency IRNA, the school was luckily closed due to Covid-19 restrictions in the country.
Monday’s warplane crash was the first accident involving a military jet reported by Iran since December 2019.
Back then, a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed near a dormant volcano in the northwest Iran during a test flight, according to official media.
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