As the Pakistan army jet is down, there were no casualties on the ground, the military said, without elaborating, AP reported.

Such incidents occasionally happen in Pakistan; the military usually doesn’t release crash findings.

The latest incident came weeks after an Air Force pilot died when his F-16 jet crashed near the capital, Islamabad, during maneuvers ahead of National Day celebrations.

In January, an FT-7 jet trainer also went down in Punjab, killing the two pilots. Last July, 19 people died when a Pakistani military aircraft crashed into a residential area on the outskirts of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, most of them in their homes.

Pakistan’s air force has been on high alert since February 2019, when neighboring India launched airstrikes inside Pakistan. New Delhi said it targeted Pakistan-based militants responsible for a suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian troops in Indian-administered Kashmir.

At the time, Pakistan retaliated and shot down two Indian military planes. One Indian pilot was captured and later released. But tensions remain high over the divided Kashmir region, which both countries claim in its entirety.

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On Wednesday, a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed while flying on a mission over the Sabalan mountainous region, the Public Relations Department said in a statement.

Despite the efforts of various search teams from the Iranian Army, Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Iranian Red Crescent Society, and local climbers, it was difficult to identify the whereabouts of the plane and its pilot due to the bad weather conditions, according to the statement.

However, the martyrdom of crashed fighter pilot, Colonel Mohammad Reza Rahmani was confirmed on Friday, it added.

Martyr Rahmani was one of “the most experienced pilots” of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) who had a brilliant career record by operating hundreds of flight missions, the statement said.

The MiG-29 fighter aircraft had taken off from an airbase in the city of Tabriz and was patrolling in the airspace of Ardabil Province when it crashed in a mountainous area.

Last week, a fighter jet of the Iranian Air Force crashed in the northwestern province of Ardabil on Wednesday, and the pilot is still unaccounted for.

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