NNA - The Jordanian army announced in a statement that a Royal Air Force plane crashed while on a training mission, killing two pilots, AFP reported.

The statement quoted a military official in the General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces as saying that, "at exactly nine o'clock this morning, one of the training aircrafts of the Royal Jordanian Air Force of type (Aq) was subjected to a technical malfunction during a training tour, which led to its crash on empty ground In Al-Ramtha, Irbid Governorate, in the north of the Kingdom.

He explained that "as a result of the plane’s crash, both the pilot and captain were killed."

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