Two Yemeni pilots died when a training airplane crashed in northwestern of the Sudanese city of Bur Sudan, Sudan's Civil Aviation Authority reported.
A spokesman for the authority said a technical fault was behind the crash which took place shortly after the plane took off from the city airport where it was supplied with fuel.
Only two crew members were onboard the plane when it came down about 70 kilometers northwestern of the city overlooking the Red Sea, Abdul Hafiz Abdul Rahim said in a statement.
The leader of the plane contacted the airport administration to report the technical fault but the contact interrupted soon, he said.
However, Saba reported that the plane was bound for the Aviation Academy in Yemen's province of Mukalla to join training jets there.
"It was on an international trip but not a training mission. It was on way from the Al-Uqsur airport bound for the Bur Sudan airport, then to the Hodeida airport and after that to the Al-Ryan airport in Mukalla," a source at the academy told Yemen News Agency.
The source added no details were immediately available for the academy about the accident.
A committee has been formed to probe the landing of the airplane which belonged to a Yemeni private company, he concluded.
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