A Jordanian military spokesman announced today, Sunday, that one of the Royal Air Force training aircraft crashed during a training trip, killing two military pilots.
An official source in the General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces said that at exactly 9 a.m. today, one of the training aircraft of the Royal Jordanian Air Force of the type (GROB) during a training run received a technical malfunction, which led to its crash in a vacant lot near the city of Ramtha in the governorate Irbid, according to the official Jordanian news agency Petra. He also pointed to the killing of Pilot Major Bilal Mashkhur Ahmad al-Shufein and Pilot Captain Baha Muhammad Mustafa Abu Ghanmi after they were transferred to King Abdullah I University Hospital.
Notably, a Jordanian pilot died in 2018 when his Little Bird helicopter crashed while on a training flight in Texas in the United States of America. An American pilot also died in the crash, and a joint commission of inquiry was formed from the Jordanian and American sides to investigate the causes of the accident at that time.
