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		</div><p>Three people have died after a fighter jet crashed into a stadium in a city in north-west Iran, according to reports.</p>
<p>The state-run news agency IRNA said the crash killed two pilots and a civilian.</p>
<p>The F-5 fighter crashed in a residential area of Tabriz, a city of 1.6 million residents. Authorities are investigating the incident.</p>
<p>General Reza Yousefi, commander of the air base in Tabriz, said the jet had been used for training and suffered a technical problem in the air.</p>
<p>“Pilots could not reach the runway,” he said.</p>
<p>Gen Yousefi added that in an effort to avoid crashing into the residential area, the pilots guided the jet to the stadium.</p>
<p>The report quoted Gen Yousefi as saying: “The Pilots sacrificed themselves – they could (have) used the ejection system, but they refused to do it.”</p>
<p>Instead, they headed for the stadium “to keep people safe”, he added.</p>
<p>A state TV reporter at the crash scene said the plane went down on a football pitch and because the width of the pitch was not long enough, it left the pitch and hit a school wall.</p>
<p>No one was inside. Schools were closed amid Iran’s sixth wave of the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>Iran’s air force has an assortment of US-made military aircraft purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.</p>
<p>It also has Russian-made MiG and Sukhoi planes. Decades of Western sanctions have made it hard to maintain the aging fleet.</p>
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