Iran: 2 pilots killed after steering crashing plane away from residential areas
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Two Iranian pilots were killed, refusing to eject in order to prevent their crashing military plane from hitting a residential area.
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The F5 training aircraft crashed at around 9 am near Tabriz
Two pilots in a crashing plane in Iran refused to eject in order to prevent the aircraft from crashing into a residential building. The two died in the crash.
According to the director of the Tabriz Red Crescent Society, the plane hit the wall of a school, “which was fortunately closed."
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Sadegh Fallahi and Alireza Hanifeh Zad, the two pilots who were killed in the incident
Director-General of Crisis Management in East Azerbaijan Province, Mohammad Baqer Honarbar said at the site of the crash that the plane, an F5 training aircraft, crashed at around 9 am in Tabriz, the provincial capital.
“Unfortunately, one citizen was also killed in this incident,” Honarbar said.
Since the jet was crashing into a residential neighborhood, the pilots refused to eject in order to steer it away from the neighborhood, giving their lives to prevent a worst-case scenario.
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