Emirati Official Reavels what UAE still Hides about its Aircraft in Yemen
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said, on Monday, its aircraft had crashed ,resulting in killing the pilot after a technical fault made the plane to crash while carrying out operations in the coalition operations in Yemen.
The second deputy pilot ,Sultan Mohammed Ali al-Naqbi ,died after his aircraft crashed as a result of a technical defect while carrting out his mission in the process of “restoring hope” in the operations of the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen.
The statement did not specify the area in which the aircraft crashed in Yemen, and that most of the military aircraft consist of a pilot and his assistant at least, which was not disclosed by the leadership of the UAE Army, but the correspondent Net monitoring the twittering of Emirati activists in support of their leadership, stating that Khaled Yadid Shehhi, on board of the aircraft that fell in Yemen ;therefore, he was missing.
Later on Monday, UAE activists reported that the pilot had been killed in the crash, but the UAE had not officially announced his death or even lost contact with him. The UAE military is likely to implement a plan to search for the missing assistant before he reaches him. Especially if the aircraft landed in an area outside the control of the coalition in Yemen, especially if he had been killed, he would have found his body will be in conjunction with the body of the pilot was found beside the wreckage of the plane ;therefore; the announcement of their deaths was synchronized in a statement released by the army leadership, he survived the incident through M Rescue canopy and winds led to the area far from where the aircraft fell.
The UAE army’s account of the cause of the aircraft crash due to a “technical flaw” remains unreliable, especially since the army’s command announced on August 12 that an aircraft had crashed in Shabwa in southern Yemen, killing a pilot and his assistant.
Two days later, UAE Minister of Culture Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan announced that the plane had been targeted and did not fall because of a technical malfunction. The UAE also confirmed that the plane had three other officers, along with the pilot and his assistant, Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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