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According to CCTV News, on August 14 local time, French President Macron issued a statement on his personal social account saying,The two missing pilots of the two Rafale fighter jets that had an accident on the 14th have been confirmed to have died during flight training.

Rafale fighter jet. Image source: Visual China

On the 14th, two Rafale fighter jets collided in the mid-air in northeastern France, resulting in two people missing.At the time of the accident, a pilot on one fighter jet ejected before the collision, while an instructor and a flight trainee on another fighter jet were missing. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.

According to a report by Reference News citing AFP on August 14, French authorities said that two Rafale fighter jets of the French military collided in the sky over northeastern France on the 14th and then crashed.

A French Air Force spokesman told AFP in Paris that both crashed fighter jets took off from Saint-Dizier Air Force Base. The accident occurred over Colombe-les-Belle in northeastern France, the report said.

According to the China National Defense News, the Rafale fighter is a twin-engine, single-seat, multi-purpose supersonic fighter developed by the French company Dassault in the mid-1980s. It adopts a canard aerodynamic layout and an advanced digital flight control system, and has good stability and operability.

The Rafale fighter is powered by two M88-3 turbofan engines produced by the French company Snecma, with a maximum thrust of 87 kilonewtons. The maximum flight speed of the aircraft reaches Mach 1.8. The Rafale fighter has more than 10 air-to-air and air-to-ground combat modes.

Daily Economic News, CCTV News, China National Defense News