Thai fighter jet crashes during drill; pilot’s fate unknown
BANGKOK — The Thai Air Force says an F-16 fighter plane has crashed during a drill in central Thailand and the pilot’s fate is not immediate known.
Air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchookorn says the single-seat jet crashed Friday at the air force’s training ground in the central province of Lopburi.
He says wreckage has been located but the pilot is missing.
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Montol says the jet was first used in 1988 and has undergone regular maintenance.
In 2010, another Thai Air Force F-16A crashed near the Thai-Myanmar border during a training flight, killing the pilot. A year later, two F-16 planes crashed in northeastern Thailand but the pilots safely ejected.
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