Saudi fighter jet training crash kills two crew

RIYADH: A Saudi Air Force jet crashed on Thursday during a training exercise in the east of the country, killing its two crew members, the defense ministry said in a statement.

The aircraft, part of the kingdom´s fleet of F-15SAs, crashed “while it was carrying out a routine training mission at King Abdulaziz Air Base in Dhahran”, said the statement attributed to defense ministry spokesman Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki, published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

It comes five months after another F-15SA, a US-built multirole fighter aircraft, crashed in the training area of an air base in Khamis Mushait city in the south of the Gulf kingdom, an incident that also left two dead.