A military
plane crash has killed two people in Algeria, the fighter jet crashed during an
overnight training exercise, killing its crew members.
According
to the defence ministry, the Russian-made Sukhoi SU-24 plane went down in an
uninhabited farming area in the province of Tiaret, around 250 kilometres (155
miles) southwest of Algiers.
The pilot
and co-pilot were killed during the “night-time training flight”, it said,
adding that it was investigating the causes of the accident.
It was the
first such incident since the country’s worst military plane crash that killed
257 people in April last year at a military base near Algiers.
In April
an Ilyushin IL-76 transport plane slammed into a field near an airbase south of
Algiers, killing 257 people — Algeria’s deadliest such incident in 20 years.
It was
mostly carrying army personnel and their family members on their way back to
their barracks in the country’s far south.
Several
previous accidents were due to poor maintenance of the military fleet, Algerian
media has reported.
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