2 killed in Jordanian military plane crash

A Jordanian air force plane on a training flight crashed on Thursday due to a technical failure, killing the pilot and a train, an official in the armed forces’ general command said in a statement. “At 6:55 a.m. (0355 GMT) on Thursday morning one of the training planes, a Firefly, at the King Hussein air force college (in Mafraq, in northern Jordan), crashed in a training area to the west of the college after a technical failure during a routine training flight," the statement said. The fatalities were named as senior pilot Maan Atallah Saleh Aldhissat, and his trainee Nael Raad Nael Khashman.