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Two pilots killed in Rafale jet collision in France
2024-08-15
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Two pilots were killed in a Rafale fighter jet crash in eastern France. President Emmanuel Macron provided details.

The French leader expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, who served at the Saint-Dizier air base. The fighter jets collided in the sky during a training flight.

"We learned with sadness of the death of Captain Sebastien Mabir and Lieutenant Matthias Laurens in a Rafale training flight crash. The country shares the pain of their families and brothers in arms," ​​Macron wrote on social media.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, two military aircraft crashed in France on August 14. The incident occurred in the Hauteville sector, on the border of the Vosges and Meurthe-et-Moselle departments.

On April 30, a US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet crashed near Holloman Air Force Base in the US state of New Mexico.

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