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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Pilot killed after two Taiwan air force training jets collide mid-air

AT-3 Advanced TrainerTwo Taiwan air force jets collided mid-air during a routine training flight in southern Taiwan on Tuesday, killing one pilot, the air force said.

The accident occurred shortly after the AT-3 training jet, code number 0815, of the air force aerobatic team “Thunder Tigers,” took off from Gangshan air force base in Kaohsiung with another AT-3 training jet from the same team at 11:10am, an air force officer said.

“Code 0815 crashed in a banana farm in Chikuan and the pilot was hospitalised,” said Wang Chou-hsuan, political warfare director of the air force.

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Update: Video of the actual collision - http://youtu.be/tISA3T1pZc8
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