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Pakistani Military Plane Crashes During Training Flight in Country's Northwest, Reports Suggest

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - A Pakistani Air Force plane has crashed in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a training flight, the newspaper Dawn reported on 23 September, citing an Air Force official.
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"A Commission of Inquiry has been ordered to investigate the cause of the accident", the official was quoted as saying.
The fate of the pilot remains unknown.
In August, a similar accident took place when a military plane crashed in the Punjab Province during a training flight. The pilots survived the crash. Over the last year, at least four Pakistani Air Force planes have crashed during training flights. One such incident occured during a parade rehearsal on 23 March.
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