TAIPEI - A Taiwanese jet trainer crashed on Tuesday , killing the pilot, the defence ministry said, the second fatal accident the air force has experienced in 2022.
The ministry said the AT-3 jet crashed during a training mission from the Gangshan air base in the southern city of Kaohsiung and the body of the pilot had already been found.President Tsai Ing-wen is"deeply saddened" by the loss and has instructed the Defence Ministry to investigate what happened, her office added in a statement.the second combat aircraft lost in three months. The pilot was rescued alive.
In January the air force suspended combat training for its F-16 fleet after a recently upgraded model of the fighter jet crashed into the sea, killing the pilot.
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