HANOI: A Vietnamese trainee pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed into a rice field, an official said Friday, the third deadly military plane accident since June.

The pilot was the only one on board when the plane went down in south-central Vietnam, the Ministry of Defense said on state-run television.

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