QUETTA – A Pakistan Army Aviation’s helicopter on Thursday crashed nearEastern Bypass area in Quetta during an emergency landing.

The copter was carrying injured Frontier Corpse (FC) officer to Quetta fromKohlu, a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated.

On April 15, 2017, a Mushshak training aircraft crashed in a village ofDina, near Jhelum due to technical glitch. The aircraft took off fromMangla Airbase for training exercise but met with an accident in HaralVillage. However, both pilots Colonel Fazl-ur-Rehman and Captain Affanremained safe in the crash.

In October last year, a pilot of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was killedafter his Mirage jet crashed near Karachi’s Musharraf Colony.

On September 24, 2016, Flight Lieutenant Amer Shazad embraced martyrdomwhen an F-7 aircraft went down near the town of Jamrud, near the entranceto the Khyber Pass.

Marium Maukhtiar, one of Pakistan’s few female fighter jet pilots wasmartyred in a training crash in November, 2015.