ISLAMABAD - PAF fighter trainer aircraft crashed near Attock during a routine training mission on Friday. According to the PAF officials, both the pilots ejected successfully. “No loss of life or property has been reported so far on ground,” said a Press release issued by the PAF soon after the incident. It further said that a Board of Inquiry has been ordered to investigate the cause of the accident. As many as five similar incidents were reported last year, with four PAF jets crashing during training missions and one while rehearsing for the March 23 parade. The first incident had taken place in January 2020, when an aircraft of the PAF had crashed while on a routine operational training mission near Mianwali. Both pilots, Squadron Leader Haris bin Khalid and Flying Officer Ibaadur Rehman, aboard the PAF FT-7 aircraft had lost their lives in the crash. It was followed by another incident in February when a PAF Mirage aircraft crashed while on a routine operational training mission near Shorkot city in Punjab. The pilot had safely ejected and no loss of life or property was reported on the ground. A PAF trainer aircraft had crashed the same month while on a routine training mission near Takht Bhai in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan district. The pilot had ejected safely before the crash. In March that year, a PAF F-16 aircraft had crashed near Shakarparian in Islamabad during rehearsals for the March 23 parade.