MOSCOW: A MiG-29 military jet crashed in southern Russia during a routine flight and the pilot was killed, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The jet wasn’t equipped with ammunition and crashed in a secluded area near a military training ground in the Astrakhan region, located about 1,180 kilometers (730 miles) south of Moscow, the ministry said.
It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the crash. High Command of the Russian Aerospace Forces dispatched a commission to the crash site to investigate the incident.
The MiG-29 is a twin-engine fighter jet that has been a mainstay of the Soviet and Russian air force since mid-1980s.
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