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The aircraft crashed into the wall of a school in the town of Tabriz after suffering an accident during military practices
At least three people died this monday at Iranian Air Force fighter incident which fell in an urban area and hit the wall of a school in northwestern Iran. Among the deceased is a civilian. The accident occurred in the morning when the F-5 training and american manufacturing crashed for unknown reasons near a school in the city of Tabrizcapital of West Azerbaijan province, Iranian official media reported.
In the accident Two pilots and a civilian who was in his car died in the accident area, confirmed the director of Crisis Management Western Azerbaijan, Mohammad Baqer Honarbar. “Unfortunately, a civilian was killed in the accident,” he told the Tasnim Honarbar agency. For its part, the Red Crescent Society stated that the device hit the wall of a schoolwhich was “fortunately” closed due to the coronavirus epidemic.
Local televisions showed images of firefighters trying to put out a fire in the street, in which twisted metal is seen and the wall of a building hit by the device.
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The causes of the accident are being investigated
Military aircraft accidents are common in Iran due to the age of appliancesacquired before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran has not had access to the purchase of new fighters for its Air Forces and has developed its own models. In 2018, an Iranian colonel was killed in another F-5 crash in the city of Dezful. A year later, a MiG-29 crashed in the Sabalan mountains in the northwest of the country.