A Jordanian pilot and an Iraqi trainee were killed when a light training aircraft crashed during a routine military excercise on Monday, the Jordanian army said. A T67 "Firefly aircraft crashed Monday morning, killing a Jordanian lieutenant colonel and his Iraqi trainee, during a routine training excercise" said Colonel Mamdouh al-Amiri, spokesman for the Jordanian military. The Jordanian military regularly trains Iraqi pilots as part of defence agreements between the two countries, Amiri said. In September, Jordan joined the US-led coalition of Arab and Western countries carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group, which controls large parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
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