Amman: Two pilots aboard a Royal Jordanian Air Force training plane diedSunday in a crash, the military said.
The accident happened in the northern Ramtha region, it said in a statementthat blamed a technical problem on the Grob aircraft.
According to Jordanian news, the officers were aboard a German-built Grobtrainer when it “fell” in an empty space in Ramtha governorate, close tothe border with Syria, the army said in the statement.
The crew, Maj Bilal Al Shofeen, and Capt Bahaa Abu Ghanmeh died “as aresult of the plane’s fall” after they were taken to a hospital, thestatement said, without giving further details.
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Jordan has reported several air training deaths in the last decade. In2015, a Jordanian instructor and his Iraqi student were killed when theirjet fighter crashed in the north of the country.
