Air Force jet crashes near Attock

APakistan Air Force (PAF) pilot flying a trainee aircraft safely ejected before the jet crashed near the Pindigheb area of the Attock district yesterday during a routine training flight.

“The pilot ejected safely,” a PAF spokesperson said without identifying the pilot. “No loss of civilian life or damage to infrastructure was reported on the ground. PAF has launched the investigation and ordered a board of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident,” the spokesman added.

PAF officials did not describe the aircraft type, however, some experts suggested that it was F7PG — a single-engine, lightweight aircraft built by China, based on MiG-21 aircraft.

The PAF uses the F-7PG for routine operational training missions.

This was the fifth such incident involving military aircraft since the start of this year, indicating an increasing number of serious mishaps for fighter and training aircraft.

However, experts do not consider this worrying.