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19:09, 26-Jul-2018
Two pilots killed in Vietnam military plane crash
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18:28, 29-Jul-2018
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A Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber crashed in Vietnam's central Nghe An province on Thursday, killing two pilots, local media reported.
Senior Lieutenant-General Nguyen Trong Nghia, vice chairman of the General Political Department under the Vietnamese People's Army, told online newspaper VietNamNet that the Air and Air Defense Force told him the Su-22, which had two pilots on board, had an accident when conducting a regular training flight on a hill in Nghia Yen commune, Nghia Dan district.
"The two pilots have died," the newspaper quoted Ngo Trong Nghia, chief of the communal police, as saying.
The aircraft departed from the civil-military airport of Sao Vang in the neighbor central province of Thanh Hoa, Vietnam News Agency reported. When it crashed, it caused a big explosion that split the plane into many pieces.
The Sukhoi Su-22 is a variant of the Sukhoi Su-17, a Soviet variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber.
(Cover image: Vietnam air force's Sukhoi Su-22M3 aircraft takes off at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, Sept. 28, 2016. /VCG Photo)
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency