An Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashed into a school compound in the North Western City of Tabriz on Monday killing two crews and a passerby unfortunately.
The Local official, Mohammed Bagher Honarvar told state television that the school was closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic luckily.
The aircraft was on a training mission when it went down around 9:00am (0530 GMT) in the city’s central district of Monajem. Honarvar, the head of crisis management unit in East A Zerbaijan province said it was reported that the plane crashed into an external wall and one of the deceased was a nearby resident.
A blaze broke out at the crash site and firefighters were seen battling with flames as a crowd looked on in video footage by the official news agency, IRNA.
The plane had been stationed at the Shahid Fakouri airbase in Tabriz which was heading back from the training mission when it encountered a technical problem that prevented it from landing.
Monday’s fighter jet crash was the first accident involving a military plane reported by Iran since December 2019.
Back then a MiG-29 warplane went down near a dormant volcano in the country’s northwest during a test fight three days later, the military confirmed the death of the pilot.
Jan 2019, a military cargo plane overshot a runway crashed and caught fire during a botched landing near Tehran. At the time the army said 15 people were killed in the accident. A combat Jet also crashed in Tabriz during military exercises in September 2011.
Iran has been subject to severe US sanction since 2018 when the US withdrew from a landmark deal, Tehran and world powers.
Talks are underway in Vienna to revive the deal and Iran’s calling for sanction to be lifted.