Feb 21, 2019 – An Algerian fighter jet has crashed during an overnight training exercise, killing its two crew members, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The Russian-made Sukhoi SU-24 plane went down in an uninhabited farming area in the province of Tiaret, around 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of Algiers, the ministry said in a statement. The pilot and co-pilot were killed during the “night-time training flight”, it said, adding that it was investigating the causes of the accident. In April an Ilyushin IL-76 transport plane slammed into a field near an airbase south of Algiers, killing 257 people — Algeria’s deadliest such incident in 20 years. It was mostly carrying army personnel and their family members on their way back to their barracks in the country’s far south.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 21, 2019 13:07 UTC