Alliance: A Saudi plane crashes during its assignment of the Yemeni army in Al-Jawf

English - Saturday 15 February 2020 الساعة 06:38 pm
Newsyemen, SPA

The Arab Alliance for Support of Legitimacy in Yemen announced today, Saturday evening, the fall of one of its fighters, in the Yemeni (Al-Jawf) Governorate, during its participation in supporting the Yemeni army midnight last night.

"A coalition aircraft fell in the area of operations as part of operations to support and assign the Yemeni National Army in the Yemeni province of Al-Jawf," said coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki, in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Colonel Al-Maliki stated that, “At 23:45 pm on Friday (February 14, 2020), a (Tornado) fighter plane of the Royal Saudi Air Force crashed while on a mission of close air support to units of the Yemeni National Army.”