A pilot with the Pakistan Air Force was killed when his plane crashed in the southern city of Karachi, officials said late Friday.
“Squadron leader Tanveer Ahmed embraced martyrdom when a Miraj aircraft crashed near Gadap Town around 30 nautical miles from Karachi (around 55 kilometres north of Karachi),” Air Commodore Tariq Mehmood, a spokesman for the Pakistan Air Force told AFP.
He said the pilot was on a routine night operational training mission when the accident happened.
Mehmood gave no reasons for the crash and said an inquiry committee had been formed to investigate the causes of the accident.
He said no loss of life or property was reported from the ground.
