(Asien) Israelische Luftwaffe

[Nightwatch]

IAF F-16 jet crashes into sea; airmen eject safely

An F-16i on a training flight crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, some 50 km. off the coast of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday.

The plane’s pilot, an IAF flight instructor and navigator, who was being trained, safely ejected from the aircraft and parachuted to the sea before being rescued.

The two-seater fighter jet was taking part in a training exercise in which it attempted an interception drill.

“A technical fault caused the engine to switch off,” a senior air force source said.

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Launch at Palmachim: 'Test of Jericho missile'

Foreign sources claim the Israeli military test-fired a new long-range ballistic missile reportedly capable of carrying a nuclear, chemical or biological warhead.

The military described Friday’s launch from a base on the Mediterranean coast as the test of the propulsion system of a missile on which it declined to elaborate.

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