Tehran: An F-14 fighter jet crashed on Saturday whilst on a challenge in central Iran, inflicting accidents to its two workforce contributors, media within the Islamic republic reported.

“The fighter jet suffered a technical fault… and the pilot and co-pilot landed with parachutes,” mentioned Rassoul Motamedi, spokesman for the army in Isfahan province the place the crash befell.

“The pilot and co-pilot had been injured… and had been in an instant taken to health facility for remedy,” he was once quoted as pronouncing by means of Tasnim information company, including that the aircraft was once destroyed.

It was once the second one such incident in Isfahan province in lower than a month, after two air drive crewmen had been killed when their F-7 coaching airplane went down.

The air drive in sanctions-hit Iran has suffered a number of crashes lately, with officers complaining of difficulties in obtaining spare portions to stay its growing old fleet within the air.

In February, an Iranian F-5 jet crashed in a residential space of the northwestern town of Tabriz, killing 3 folks together with its two-man workforce.

Iran has most commonly Russian MiG and Sukhoi fighter jets that date again to the Soviet generation, in addition to some Chinese language airplane, together with the F-7, French Mirage jets and American F-4 and F-5 fighter planes.

The Islamic republic has 80 F-14 Tomcats, a warplane that served in the USA Army from 1972 till 2006, when it was once withdrawn.

Tehran has persevered to make use of them as a result of American sanctions in opposition to Iran within the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic revolution save you it from purchasing extra fashionable Western jets.