On this photograph launched by the Tasnim Information Company, firefighters extinguish a fireplace on the scene of a crash of an F-5 fighter jet that killed two pilots and a civilian in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, on Feb. 21, 2022. (Tasnim Information company by way of AP)
TEHRAN, IRAN --
A fighter jet crashed onto a soccer pitch in a metropolis in northwest Iran, the nation's state-run information company reported Monday. The crash killed two pilots and a civilian.
IRNA mentioned the F-5 fighter crashed onto the sphere in a residential space of Tabriz, a metropolis of 1.6 million residents. Authorities are investigating the incident, the report mentioned.
Gen. Reza Yousefi, commander of the air base in Tabriz, mentioned the crashed jet had been used for coaching and suffered a technical downside on its ultimate flight.
"Pilots couldn't attain the runway," he mentioned, based on the report.
In an effort to keep away from crashing into the residential space, the pilots guided the jet to the soccer pitch, he mentioned. The report quoted Yousefi as saying: "The pilots sacrificed themselves, they might (have) used the ejection system, however they refused to do it."
The pilots headed for the pitch "to maintain individuals secure," Yousefi mentioned within the report.
A state TV reporter on the crash scene mentioned that as a result of the pitch was not lengthy sufficient, the airplane left the sphere and hit a faculty wall.
Nobody was inside. Colleges had been closed amid Iran's sixth wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Iran's air drive has an assortment of U.S.-made navy plane bought earlier than the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It additionally has Russian-made MiG and Sukhoi planes. Many years of Western sanctions have made it arduous to keep up the getting older fleet.
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