Two Jordanian pilots killed in plane crash
Two Jordanian pilots killed in plane crash | The Times of Israel.
( Coming days after a similar story about a Turkish F-16, I’m not buying the explanation. It’s Syria. – JW )
Routine flight developed unspecified ‘technical fault’ near the Syrian border
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s military says a trainer jet has crashed near the Syrian border, killing its two Jordanian pilots.
A spokesman says the British-made aerobatic T-67 Firefly trainer was on a routine flight early Thursday west of King Hussein Air College, a Royal Jordanian Air Force base in the border town of Mafraq, when it developed an unspecified “technical fault.”
The spokesman demanded anonymity under army regulations.
The base is believed to house 3,000 Syrian army and police defectors and 200 U.S. troops dispatched recently to bolster Jordan’s border defenses against potential Syrian threats.
The base is also believed to be the site where U.S. experts are training secular Syrian opposition fighters seeking to topple Bashar Assad. It is in a military zone that is off limits to the public.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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WarSclerotic 
May 16, 2013 at 5:04 PM
Russian electronic equipment for jamming.
May 16, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Probably. And they were probably inside Syrian airspace, not “at the border”.
May 16, 2013 at 5:16 PM
They don’t want to start a panic in the aviation industry. Can you spell Exocet (or a variation thereof)?
May 16, 2013 at 5:31 PM
This is a light, propeller driven aircraft, that even with a loss of its engine can glide to the ground. Unless the aircraft fell apart the pilots should have been able to bailout. So it sounds like something blew this plane to pieces. Perhaps Tehran believes that with Obama hunkered down in the White House taking shots from all sides it would be a good time to create a crisis.
May 16, 2013 at 6:12 PM
i know one thing if syria just downed a aircraft all hell will break lose in the next few days,as its been decided deeds America doesn’t send aircraft that were meant to take two years for delivery in a week and a carrier to Israel for fun that’s a announcement to Assad and Russia that your the target.i just wish we stooped talking and started hitting,we cant let fascists take over the middle east and Europe they need stopping now,We learnt the hard way from ww 11
May 16, 2013 at 6:44 PM
Agreed that fascists must be stopped, the sooner the better. Remember Churchill’s quote about acting sooner than later. I am very curious if Russia do indeed turned 180 degrees or not. Time will tell…
May 16, 2013 at 11:11 PM
TURNED it never changed only its spots