Swedish fighter jet crashes
A Swedish jet fighter crashed after colliding with a bird in southern Sweden on 21 August, authorities said, adding the pilot ejected safely.
Johan Lundgren, spokesman at the Swedish Armed Forces told AFP: ‘It was a bird collision and the pilot had to eject.’
The pilot was on a training mission in a Jas Gripen aircraft manufactured by Swedish aerospace company Saab.
The accident happened 8kms north of a military air base near the southern Swedish city of Ronneby.
The pilot was taken to a hospital for a check-up.
Authorities said the accident happened in a remote area and no casualties were reported.
Sweden reports about 400 such incidents a year, Charlotte Billgren at the Swedish Transport Agency told the TT news agency.
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