2 pilots killed in training plane crash in central Türkiye

ANKARA

Two pilots were killed after a training aircraft crashed in central Türkiye, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

The SF-260D type aircraft belonging to the Air Forces Command, which took off from the 12th Air Transport Main Base Command in Kayseri for training, crashed for an unknown reason, the ministry said on X.

Search and rescue efforts have begun, it added.