The Navy has identified a pilot killed during a tragic A-29 Super Tucano crash that took place Friday during flight demonstrations for the Air Force's light attack experiment.

Lt. Christopher Carey Short, originally from Canandaigua, New York, was piloting the A-29 when it crashed over the Red Rio Bombing Range within White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Air Force officials did not disclose Short's death in earlier announcements, remaining silent on the matter for nearly 36 hours prior to the Navy's news release late Saturday night.

Officials previously only disclosed that there were two pilots in the A-29, and one was airlifted to a local hospital with minor injuries.

The cause of the crash is now under investigation, according to the Navy release.

NEW DELHI: An under-production Sukhoi jet crashed today in Maharashtra's Nashik.

No casualties have been reported yet. Both pilots are said to have ejected safely.

The Sukhoi Su-30MKI was an under-production aircraft of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Therefore, it wasn't yet part of the Indian Air Force (IAF)

At least eight Sukhoi-30MKIs have crashed since they were inducted.

The IAF has inducted around 240 of the 272 Sukhoi-30MKIs contracted from Russia for $12 billion, the bulk of them produced by HAL under licence.

Last year in May, a frontline Sukhoi jet crashed near the China border killing both pilots on board.

A technical snag is believed to have stopped them from initiating ejection, suggesting they went down with plane.

They met with fatal injuries and succumbed to them.

The IAF has ordered a court of inquiry to investigate the cause of the accident.

PESHAWAR: Two pilots of Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) were martyred when their fighter jet crash landed at airport.

The fighter jet crash landed at Bacha Khan Airport in Peshawar and blew up, martyring the two PAF pilots. The plane which crashed around 11:40am soon after taking off, was facing technical difficulties. The plane fell on the customs landing runway of the airport.

According to eye-witnesses, the fighter pilots had tried to save civilian populace and steered away. But while trying to do so, the plane had crash landed and blew up, the witness added.


Emergency had been declared at the airport by the authorities after the incident. The fires were soon extinguished on the runway.

Smoke could be seen rising from the airport after the plane had crash landed and got blown.

The PAF authorities has just issued a statement regarding the incident. It read: Pakistan Air Force reports with regret that a PAF FT-7PG trainer aircraft while recovering from a routine operational training mission crashed during landing at Peshawar air base. Rescue operation is in progress.

The statement does not, however; confirm the death of the two pilots.

The Apache helicopter made a forced landing Sunday due to a malfunction in the Rosh Ha’ayin region of central Israel.

No one was hurt.

An Air Force crew was dispatched to the scene of the crash.