In a major accident, atleast 12 members are reported dead in Chinese military aircraft crash. The people's Liberation Army Air Force has confirmed that an aircraft crashed in the southwestern province during a training exercise on Monday.
"There were about a dozen men and women on board and none of them managed to escape when the plane went down," reported a source.
"There are no ejection seats on those aircraft, so the pilots and crew members would have been relying on the parachute packs on board. But they wouldn't have had enough time to jump because the aircraft fell so fast," the official said.