Riyadh: A Saudi military trainer aircraft crashed on Monday while on a training mission, northwest of the kingdom, killing the crew, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.
An investigation was opened into the cause of Monday's crash of the British-manufactured Hawk, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
وزارة الدفاع : سقوط إحدى طائرات القوات الجوية الملكية السعودية أثناء طلعة تدريبية في المنطقة الشمالية الغربية واستشهاد طاقمها.https://t.co/IYXijsCkAO#واس
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It provided no further details of the circumstances of the accident and did not specify how many crew were on board.
