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| Two aerobatic planes collide during training flight in France |
| 2025-03-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Two Alpha Jet jets collided during training flights in eastern France. This was reported on March 25 by the Minister of Defense of the Republic, Sebastien Lecornu. "There has just been an accident in eastern France involving two Alpha Jets [of the aerobatic team] of the Patrouille de France, which were taking part in a rehearsal. Rescue services are involved, coordination is underway between the Ministry of the Interior and the armed forces," he wrote on the social network X. Earlier, the Puissance Télévision portal published footage of the accident, showing the planes colliding during training. The site also posted a photo of what appears to be the pilot parachuting amid rising black smoke. The publication claims that both pilots were able to bail out of the aircraft in time after the collision. One of the damaged aircraft crashed into a Calin silo in the commune of Saint-Dizier, in the sky above which a training flight was being conducted. According to open sources, the Alpha Jet aircraft was developed by specialists from the French company Dassault and the German Dornier. The aircraft is a light attack aircraft, it is also used as a training aircraft. The aircraft's first flight was made in 1973, and it has been in service with the French Armed Forces since 1977. Earlier, on March 22, a jet plane crashed during the West Coast Air Show in South Africa. During the demonstration, the pilot of the Impala Mark I made several turns in the air, after which the aircraft lost control and crashed to the ground. The pilot did not have time to eject and died, the spectators were not injured. As reported by the Regnum news agency, in October 2024, two light aircraft collided in mid-air in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Three people died as a result of the accident. |
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