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A member of ground staff was killed after an F-5 military training jet crashed in the central Turkish province of Konya on Thursday, Turkish Defence Ministry said. The pilot survived, having managed to eject and is hospitalized, the ministry announced on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The aircraft crashed at an airbase runway, killing a member of maintenance personnel at the site, state news agency Anadolu said. The exact cause of the crash, that occurred at 12:51 (0951 GMT) was not immediately clear. State broadcaster TRT showed images of smoke billowing over the airb…

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