Burmese fighter pilot killed in crash

Asian Defense News: (heraldsun.com.au January 24, 2010) A BURMESE fighter pilot was killed during training this morning when his plane crashed in an airfield in the military-ruled country, an official said.
The 27-year-old died when he overshot the runway landing a Chinese-made F7 plane at Mingaladon air field in the north of Rangoon city, the official told AFP.
"It happened because of a technical problem,'' he said, asking not to be named. He could not give further details.
Burma, which has been ruled by the military since 1962, mainly buys fighter planes from China and Russia, although official statistics are difficult to obtain.
Burma and Russia signed a contract worth nearly $US570 million ($632 million) last month to deliver 20 MiG-29 fighter planes.