Thai military plane crash kills two pilots

BANGKOK: A military plane crashed in a forested area of northern Thailand during a training flight on Thursday, killing the two pilots on board, the air force said.
“Two pilots died in an aircraft accident involving a light attack aircraft AT-6TH this morning during training,” air force spokesman Jackkrit Thammanvichai said.
The two-seater plane crashed in Chiang Mai province at around 10:20 am (0320 GMT) during a combat search and rescue training mission, the air force said in a statement.
The crash “did not affect local residents or cause damage to civilian property,” the statement said.
Authorities were investigating the cause of the crash and had deployed to the scene, it added.
Six Thai police officers were killed in April last year when a small plane crashed into the sea during a parachute training drill near a resort town south of the capital Bangkok.