At least three people -among them a civilian- died this Monday in the sinister of a fighter of the Iranian Air Force which fell in an urban area and hit the wall of a school in northwestern Iran.
The accident occurred in the morning when the F-5 training it crashedor for reasons still unknown near a school in the city of Tabriz, capital of West Azerbaijan province, Iranian official media reported.
Two pilots and a civilian who was in his car in the accident area died in the accident, confirmed the director of Western Azerbaijan Crisis Management, Mohammad Baqer Honarbar. “Unfortunately, a civilian was killed in the accident.” he told the Tasnim Honarbar agency.
For its part, the Crescent Society stated that the device lcame to hit the wall of a school, which was “luckily” closed due to the epidemic of coronavirus. Local televisions showed images of firefighters trying to put out a fire in the street, in which twisted metal is seen and the wall of a building hit by the device.
The causes of the accident are being investigated. The accidents of military aircrafts they are common in Iran due to the age of the devices, acquired before the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeiní, Iran has not had access to the purchase of new fighters for its Air Forces and has developed its own models. In 2018, an Iranian colonel was killed in another F-5 crash in the city of Dezful. A year later, a MiG-29 crashed in the Sabalan mountains in the northwest of the country.