At least one person was killed and two others injured when a Chinese military plane crashed in a residential area during a regular exercise in central China’s Hubei province on Thursday, the state-owned China Global Television Network (CGTN) said.
A J-7 fighter jet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLA) crashed during the exercise in Laohekou city, Hubei Province on the morning of June 9 and destroyed several residential buildings.
“The pilot parachuted out of the plane and was taken to the hospital for examination and treatment, along with the two injured citizens,” military channel China Central Television (CCTV) said.
The video on the accident site was published on the Internet South China Morning Post (SCMP) showed extensive impact and fire damage to a residence in Laohekou. Smoke rose from the empty apartment as firefighters tried to extinguish the fire. Also in the video, the fighter pilot of the crashed plane was sitting near the crash site shortly after exiting the plane.
The state video surveillance service said it was unknown at a press conference on June 9 that the cause of the PLA crash and whether it resulted in further casualties.
“The J-7 fighter was developed in China in the 1960s and was designed primarily for close-to-air combat. Its production was suspended in 2013 and currently the modified aircraft is used primarily for pilot training. SCMP.
“There have been several other cases of fighter jet crashes while training on flights in China,” a Hong Kong newspaper said on Thursday. “In 2015, a Chinese Air Force pilot parachuted shortly before his plane crashed near a hill. Two years ago, a military pilot was killed when a fighter plane crashed during a night exercise in eastern Zhejiang.
On March 21, China experienced the deadliest civilian aircraft incident since 1994, when a China Eastern Airlines plane crashed into a mountain in southern China’s Guangxi Autonomous Region, killing 132 people. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said on April 20 that it is still investigating the causes of the tragedy, although there have been reports. Wall Street Magazine (WSJ) and in May Reuters speculated that the plane may have entered the side of Guangxi Mountain on purpose.
“The Boeing 737-800 was flying at high altitude when it suddenly began an almost vertical descent and crashed into a mountain at very high speed. Data from a black box at the time of the crash show that control actions pushed the plane into a deadly dive. WSJ On May 17, he referred to unnamed individuals who were “familiar with US officials’ initial assessment of what caused the accident.”
Citing an unnamed source, Reuters reported on May 18 that China Eastern Airlines incident investigators were “investigating whether the accident was a ‘voluntary’ action involving crew control actions.”
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