Lao Peoples Air Force’s Yak-130 Crashed Killing Two Pilots

A Yak-130 jet nosedived into a reservoir, killing the two pilots in Laos. Footage shows the military aircraft as it crashes during a training exercise in Xieng Khouang Province on October 4. The military training plane operated by the Lao People’s Air Force had a pilot and co-pilot onboard. Both were killed instantly, and their bodies were recovered from the wreckage.

Records show the Yakovlev Yak-130 was sourced from Russia and had a long history of air accidents in Bangladesh, Russia and Belarus. The Russian Federation Air Force had previously used it for military pilot training. An official report into the crash found ‘the A Yakovlev Yak-130 was conducting a split S training manoeuvre when crashed into a pond, killing both pilots’.

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, sandwiched between Thailand to the West and Vietnam to the East. Along with Vietnam and Cambodia to the south, it fell to the Communists in 1975.

The army of 29,100 is equipped with 30 main battle tanks. The army marine section, equipped with 16 patrol craft, has 600 personnel. The air force, with 3,500 personnel, is equipped with anti-aircraft missiles and 24 combat aircraft

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