ISLAMABAD, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A pilot and an assistant pilot were killed when a trainer plane of Pakistan Air Force crashed in the country's eastern Mandi Bahauddin district on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
Spokesperson of Pakistan Air Force said that a trainer"Mirage Aircraft" crashed during a training mission in Qadir Abad area of Mandi Bahauddin, a district in the country's eastern Punjab province.
District Police Officer Ameer Taimoor said that the plane took off from Sargodha Airbase with two pilots onboard and crashed due to some technical fault.
He said that police rushed to the crash site and cordoned off the wreckage of the crashed plane.
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