Yangon: A Myanmar air force fighter plane crashed Friday morning while attempting to land at Yangon airport, killing its pilot.
An official at Yangon International Airport said the Chinese-made F-7 jet crashed while on a training flight.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. The air force base is adjacent to the civilian airport and uses the same runways.
The official said commercial flights at the continued despite the crash because the accident occurred at the far end of a runway.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a Swedish think tank, Myanmar purchased at least 36 F-7 jets from China in the 1990s.
