According to indonesia's "Compass Newspaper", on the evening of July 18, local time, a T-50i "Golden Eagle" fighter of the Indonesian Air Force crashed in Brora, and the casualties are being confirmed.
The fighter took off from Isvayodi Air Force Base in East Java province, lost contact with the ground while conducting flight training, and was eventually confirmed to have crashed by the Indonesian Air Force.
According to South Korea's "National Daily", the T-50 supersonic advanced trainer aircraft, jointly developed by the Korean Aerospace Industry Corporation and the American space giant Lockheed Martin, can perform training and attack missions, and has been exported to Indonesia, the Philippines and Iraq. In 2011, the Indonesian military signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Industry Corporation to import 16 T-50i high-learning aircraft from South Korea. (Overseas Network Liu Qiang)
