Bulgarian Military Jet Crashes Without Casualties, Ministry Says

A Bulgarian military aircraft MiG-29 crashed during a training flight near the southern city of Plovdiv without casualties. The plane caught fire shortly after takeoff from the Graf Ignatievo air force base, the Defense Ministry in Sofia said in a statement today. Its two pilots were instructed to direct the aircraft toward an unpopulated area and eject. The MiG-29 fell between the villages of Tsarimir and Goliam Chardak and there are no civilian casualties, the ministry said.

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