Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) A recent assessment of proposed military hangars to be built in a Taichung air base has shown that they would be capable of withstanding hits from the Chinese Dongfeng series of ballistic missiles, Air Force Chief of Staff Huang Chih-wei (黃志偉) said Wednesday.
TAIPEI - Taiwan’s air force suspended flight training of new pilots on Tuesday (May 31) after a jet trainer crashed killing its pilot, the defence ministry said, the second fatal accident the air force has experienced in 2022. The ministry said the AT-3 jet crashed during a training mission from the Gangshan air base in the southern city of Kaohsiung.
TAIPEI: Taiwan's air force suspended flight training of new pilots on Tuesday after a jet trainer crashed killing its pilot, the defence ministry said, the second fatal accident the air force has experienced in 2022.
Taipei, May 31 (CNA) A relatively inexperienced pilot, an aging aircraft, and unstable atmospheric conditions are possible factors that may have led to Tuesday's deadly AT-3 trainer jet crash that killed the pilot, retired Air Force Lieutenant General Chang Yen-ting (張延廷) told CNA Tuesday.
Taipei, May 31 (CNA) Taiwan's Air Force Academy on Tuesday suspended all flight training for its cadets and grounded all of its AT-3 trainer jets after an AT-3 used by the academy crashed in Kaohsiung during a training session earlier in the day, killing its pilot.