HANOI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The military aircraft crash during a training session in Vietnam's central Phu Yen province on Friday morning was caused by engine failure, said the country's Ministry of Defense.
The aircraft L39 coded 8705, operated by staff of Regiment 910 of the Air Force Academy under the Air Defense and Air Force Service, went down several minutes after taking off at 8:45 a.m. local time (01:45 GMT) on Friday.
The trainee pilot on board, Pham Duc Trung, 22, died in the accident when the aircraft crashed into a rice paddy in Hoa Thanh commune, Dong Hoa district in Phu Yen.
In June, a SU-30 jet fighter of Vietnam's air force crashed in waters off central Vietnam during a training mission, killing one pilot. A CASA aircraft which was in searching mission for the SU-30 jet later crashed in waters off northern Vietnam, leaving nine people dead.
