Tue, 31 May 2022,
A Taiwan air force training jet crashed in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, on a training mission on Tuesday morning, killing the pilot, according to the island’s military.
The locally developed twin-seat AT-3 trainer took off from the air force base in Kangshan, near Kaohsiung and crashed into a paddy field nearby three minutes later, the air force and Kaohsiung City Fire Department said.
It was the fourth AT-3 crash in 10 years, and the 15th since some 60 trainer jets were commissioned by the air force in 1984. Eleven pilots and cadets have been killed during the 15 crashes.
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In March, the air force grounded its Mirage 2000 fighter jets after one of them crashed into the sea, the second fighter jet loss after an upgraded model of the F-16 crashed into the sea in January.