Saudi fighter jet crashes in Gulf waters

Farhan Abro December 4, 2012

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RIYADH (AFP) – A Saudi F-15 fighter with only the pilot on board crashed into Gulf waters while on a training mission in the kingdom’s Eastern Province, the defence ministry announced on Monday. The plane fell into “Saudi territorial waters and the search for the pilot is still ongoing,” the ministry said, adding that an investigation has been launched into the cause of the crash. The “accident” took place on “a routine mission led by Lieutenant Pilot Fahad bin Faleh al-Masareer on Sunday evening” from King Abdul Aziz air base in the Eastern Province, it said, in a statement carried by official news agency SPA. A similar incident took place last May when another Saudi F-15 crashed in the same region and its pilot was killed.

Farhan Abro

Hello! My name is Farhan Abro, and I'm based here in Islamabad. My journey in Pakistan's digital media really kicked off when I founded INCPak back in 2012. We built it from the ground up, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, to be a trusted voice for independent journalism. But while media is a big part of who I am, I'm also shaped by a fascinating mix of other passions. I'm deeply into automotive, which gives me a technical edge, but I also find my artistic expression through landscape photography and music. And I'm always diving into the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence. Bringing all these different worlds together the technical, the creative, the journalistic, and the entrepreneurial—it really colors how I see things and approach every project. It gives me a distinct perspective that I try to bring to everything I share