JEDDAH: Two pilots were evacuated from the 鈥嬧�媜perations area in Yemen after a warplane crashed due to a technical fault, the Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday.
A joint search and rescue operation was conducted to save the two pilots, Captain Fahad M. Al-Hoqbani and Captain Abdullah H. Al-Zeer.
A coalition spokesman, Col. Turki Al-Maliki, said that at 3:40 p.m. on Sunday, one of the Saudi Royal Air Force fighter aircrafts crashed due to a technical fault after conducting an operational task in Yemen.
鈥淭he two pilots survived the crash,鈥� he said.
鈥淭he command of the joint forces of the coalition has carried out a special joint operation to evacuate the pilots from the area their plane crashed. Land and air forces took part in the operation and the pilots were evacuated into the Kingdom,鈥� he said.
Two Coalition pilots evacuated after jet crash in Yemen
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