Pilots survive as PAF aircraft crashes in Swabi

SWABI: A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) training aircraft crashed in Shahmansoor village here on Monday, said officials of the district administration.No casualty was reported as the pilots ejected before the faulty aircraft crashed in the fields of tobacco. Eyewitness said the aircraft crashed and the wreckage caught fire immediately.
Officials said that soon after the incident, a PAF spokesperson confirmed that two pilots had survived in the crash. The pilots, Faisal Irfan and Khawas Khan, parachuted near the Pothar canal area. They took off from Risalpur and were on way back to Risalpur when the aircraft crashed.
The police said the pilots were taken to the Shahmansoor Hospital Complex and they remained there for some time. Later they were referred to the Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar. It has been learnt that one of the pilots suffered a fracture in leg and the other sustained minor injuries but both were stable.
They recalled that more than seven years ago, a similar training aircraft crashed in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology in January, resulting in killing of the sole pilot and another man who had come to the institute from Topi city to collect firewood.