In Iran, during the training flight, a combat fighter crashed.

Last Saturday, the F-7 fighter in service with the Iranian Air Force, carrying out a training flight, crashed in Isfahan province. According to preliminary data, the main circumstance of the incident was the malfunction of the power plant, in connection with which the pilots of the combat aircraft had to be catapulted - the lives of the crew members of the F-7 fighter are not threatened, but they were taken to the hospital, as they received a number of minor injuries on landing .

As follows from the information provided by the Iranian media, the F-7 fighter carried out a completely coordinated flight, while the pilots faced a technical malfunction almost immediately after take-off from the Shahid Babay airbase.

It is known that as a result of the incident, victims and victims on earth were avoided, as the plane fell far enough from populated areas.

It should be clarified that the crashed F-7 fighter is the export model of the third generation Chinese fighter Chengdu J-7, while the Chinese aircraft itself is a copy of the Soviet fighter MiG-21.

Experts do not exclude that the main cause of the plane crash involving the Iranian fighter is the physical wear of the equipment itself, since the fighter was manufactured several decades ago, but experts will have to establish all the circumstances of the incident.