The MiG-29 fighter crashed in Egypt

The MiG-29M fighter crashed in Egypt, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) reported . The aircraft belonged to the Egyptian Air Force, he performed a training flight.

Technical specialists of the UAC will soon go to Egypt to help in the investigation.

According to Kommersant, the accident was suffered by one of the fighters, delivered by Russia this year under a commercial contract. The Egyptian pilot has been ejected. “The cause of the incident could be either technical problems (for example, the refusal of the integrated control system), or the improper actions of the pilot,” the newspaper writes with reference to a source in the aviation industry.