MANILA — Two Philippine air pressure pilots have been killed after their plane crashed for the duration of an anti-insurgency project in a southern province, navy officers stated on Wednesday (March 5).
It turned into now no longer straight away clean whilst the twist of fate took place however the Philippine Air Force stated the FA-50 fighter misplaced touch with different plane worried withinside the project in Bukidnon province quickly after middle of the night on March 4, prompting a search-and-rescue operation.
The wreckage of the jet fighter, and the 2 pilots, have been discovered withinside the Kalatungan mountains withinside the southern Mindanao place on Wednesday, navy officers stated.
“The wreckage factors to it being a crash,” Air Force spokesperson Consuelo Castillo instructed journalists in a digital briefing, including an research is beneathneath manner to decide the motive of the accident.
The closing eleven South Korean-constructed FA-50 jets had been grounded following the accident, Castillo added.
The Philippines received 12 FA-50s from South Korea in 2014 as a part of a army modernisation programme to reinforce inner safety and enhance its functionality to protect its maritime borders in opposition to China withinside the South China Sea.
“Our aim is to place them lower back out of grounding right away to now no longer disrupt our operations too much,” Castillo said.
