Two French military aircraft collide mid-air, search for crews
Military jets crash in France, 2 pilots die
Two fighter jet pilots were killed after their Rafale warplane collided with another and crashed in north-eastern France, according to the French military. The pilot of the other jet ejected and suffered minor injuries.
The two aircraft collided Wednesday during a combat maneuver in the Vosges region near the town of Colombey-les-Belles, the Defence Ministry said in a statement late in the day.
The pilots who were killed were an instructor and a trainee on a training mission, it said.
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Military and judicial investigations are underway into the causes of the accident.
The pilot of one Rafale was found alive soon after the crash, but it took several hours of searching by gendarmes in the wooded region to find the two pilots of the other jet.
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