The fiery collision of two Rafale fighter jets over the north of France on Wednesday sparked a huge military response, with gendarmes scouring a remote woodland for two pilots missing from the crash. The two French military jets collided over a small town in the north east, Colombey-les-Belles, at around Both planes came from a nearby French Air Force base, Saint-Dizier, a major training centre for fighter pilots, with the pair colliding while returning from a mission in Germany.
I only saw a plane. It made a huge black cloud. It was not the usual sonic boom of a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier, he said. The Dassault Rafale is the workhorse of the country's air force, a multi-role fighter that has been in service for over two decades and has been deployed around the world , firing laser-guided missiles in Afghanistan and striking Jihadist camps in Mali The French MOD has opened an accident investigation into the incident, which occurred on a refueling training mission.
The country's air force said: "Security and judicial investigations are opened to shed light on the reasons for this accident. There has not been a major Rafale crash for many years, with just two major incidents in and In the first incident, a disoriented pilot dived metres and crashed, while in the incident two trainee pilots collided while landing on an aircraft carrier, killing one.
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