An Algerian fighter jet has crashed on a night training exercise in the east of the North African country killing both of its crew, the defense ministry said Tuesday, January 28.
An investigation has been opened into why the Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30 fighter crashed late on Monday 400 km (250 miles) from the capital Algiers.
The plane “crashed … in an unpopulated area near the village of Ain Zitoun in Oum El Bouaghi district,” the ministry said.
There have been a number of accidents involving Algerian military aircraft in recent years that left hundreds dead.
In April 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 heavy transport aircraft crashed south of Algiers with the loss of all 257 people on board, most of them military personnel, in the deadliest air accident in Algerian history.
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