Pakistani army training aircraft crashes, killing both pilots

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-10-12 · by The Associated Press

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A Pakistani army training aircraft, specifically a PAC MFI-17 Mushshak plane, crashed near Nawan Killi in Balochistan province on Monday, resulting in the death of both pilots aboard. The military stated that the cause was a technical fault but provided no additional information about the incident.
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Story summary

On Monday, a PAC MFI-17 Mushshak training aircraft from the Pakistan Army Aviation crashed near Nawan Killi, a town in Quetta, due to a technical fault, resulting in the deaths of both pilots on board: Major Husnain Shehzad Humayun and Captain Abdul Samad. The crash was confirmed by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed their condolences to the families of the deceased pilots. This incident follows previous crashes in June 2023 and September 2022, both attributed to technical faults, which resulted in multiple fatalities.

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📰 Pakistan Army Pilots Die In Crash
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Topics

ISLAMABAD Nawan Killi PAC MFI-17 Mushshak Pakistan Pakistani

Subjects

Balochistan GPE · 1× ISLAMABAD GPE · 1× Nawan Killi GPE · 1× Pakistan GPE · 1× Pakistani NORP · 1×

Narrative

The military attributed the crash of a PAC MFI-17 Mushshak plane near the town of Nawan Killi in Balochistan province to a technical fault.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-10-12
2026-10-12 · Toronto Star
Pakistani army training aircraft crashes, killing both pilots · assertive framing

Claims (3 extracted, 0 hedged)

A Pakistani army training aircraft crashed in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing both pilots, the military said. asserted
military → crash → pilots
The military attributed the crash of a PAC MFI-17 Mushshak plane near the town of Nawan Killi in Balochistan province to a technical fault. asserted
military → attribute → fault
It gave no further details. asserted
It → give → details
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