ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: A Pakistan Air Force fighter jet crashed on Sunday during a training mission in Punjab, killing its pilot, a military spokesman said. “It was a Mirage aircraft,” Wing Commander Tariq Mahmood told AFP. “The crash was fatal.”
The jet came down in the town of Payee Khel, in Punjab, he said, adding that the cause of the crash was being investigated.
This was the second French-built Mirage aircraft to have crashed over the past fortnight. On August 25, a pilot successfully ejected over Sindh.—AFP
