Jan
28
2015
Spain: NATO plane crash kills 10, injures 21
Posted by Arms Control Center in ARMED FORCESTen people have been killed and 21 others injured when a NATO fighter jet crashed at an airbase in central Spain.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said two pilots were among the dead. The other eight were French citizens.
Rajoy said there are “many injured,” ten of them French and 11 Italians.
One witness to the crash said that the accident happened very fast. “Just after taking-off on the runway, I noticed the plane turned right and hit the ground. It then exploded,” he said.