Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jet F-7 crashed near Karachi killing its pilot, PAF said. The aircraft, which was on a training flight, had taken off from Karachi's Masroor Base Thursday night. It developed a technical fault. The aircraft caught fire some 15 minutes after the takeoff. Eyewitnesses said that the jet was about to hit a village but the pilot took aircraft away from it that hit a hill and crashed. The PAF has ordered an inquiry into the accident.