Vietnamese military personnel look at the burning wreckage of a military helicopter in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 7, 2014. (PHOTO / IC)
HANOI – A Vietnamese pilot was killed in a fighter jet crash in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, Vietnam News Agency reported.
The Su-22 aircraft crashed while landing Tuesday noon in Yen Bai province, the news agency said.
Thirty-one-year-old captain Tran Ngoc Duy was ordered to parachute but he tried to save the aircraft. The plane crashed, killing the pilot, it said.
The Ministry of Defense has directed Air Defense-Air Force and relevant agencies to investigate the cause of the accident, according to the news report.
Two pilots were killed in a similar exercise involving a Su-22 in central Vietnam in 2018, while two were forced to eject over the South China Sea in 2015 when their Su-22 jet went down.