*Taiwanese Air Force’s Indigenous New Trainer Crashes, Pilot Safe* One of the Taiwan air force’s new, domestically developed advanced jet trainer aircraft crashed on Saturday. The aircraft crashed after reporting an engine failure, though the pilot safely bailed out, the military of Taiwan said. It was the first major setback for the AT-5 Brave Eagle, made by state-owned Aerospace Industrial Development Corp with a budget of T$68.6 billion ($2.1 billion). The first test flight in 2020. Taiwan’s air force said the aircraft took off from the Chihhang air base in Taitung on the island’s east coast for a weapons training mission and then reported the failure of both its engines. 🔗 https://bharatshakti.in/taiwanese-air-forces-indigenous-new-trainer-crashes-pilot-safe/