菲律宾空军两架教练机训练中相撞坠毁：4名飞行员遇难，SF-260机队停飞待查
菲律宾八打雁省 Lipa 市的 Fernando 空军基地，菲律宾军方10月24日周六表示，菲律宾空军两架 SF-260 教练机周五在该基地进行训练飞行时坠毁，机上4名飞行员全部遇难。（GSM 据路透社报道）
据菲律宾空军的声明，事故发生在10月23日周五下午约3时51分，两架飞机坠落在基地范围之内，地面没有其他人员伤亡。据美联社报道，两名了解事故情况的菲律宾官员称，两机是在低空相撞；当地媒体也作了空中相撞的报道。一名目击者告诉美联社，其中一架双座飞机坠落在基地内军人营房附近。
菲律宾空军已临时停飞其全部 SF-260 机队，等待事故原因调查。空军尚未公布遇难飞行员的姓名。SF-260 是意大利研制的轻型螺旋桨飞机，是菲律宾飞行学员在转入喷气机训练之前使用的基础教练机，涉事飞机购自意大利。
这是该机型在菲律宾的又一次致命事故：今年5月，一架 SF-260 教练机在菲律宾北部山区坠毁，两名飞行员遇难；2023年，另一架 SF-260 教练机也在训练飞行中坠毁，造成两名飞行员死亡。路透社在背景报道中指出，菲律宾军方2017年在南部 Marawi 市对效忠极端组织「伊斯兰国」的武装分子进行数月空袭时，也曾使用 SF-260 飞机。
Two Philippine Air Force Trainer Planes Collide During Training Flight: Four Pilots Killed, SF-260 Fleet Grounded
At Fernando Air Base in Lipa, Batangas province, south of Manila, two Philippine Air Force SF-260 trainer aircraft crashed during a training flight on Friday, killing all four pilots aboard, the Philippine military said on Saturday, October 24. (GSM, reporting from Reuters)
According to a Philippine Air Force statement, the accident occurred at about 3:51 p.m. on Friday, October 23, and both aircraft came down within the grounds of the air base, with no other casualties. Two Philippine officials familiar with the incident told The Associated Press that the aircraft collided in midair at low altitude, and local media also reported a midair collision. A witness told AP that one of the two-seat aircraft came down near military personnel barracks inside the base.
The Air Force has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of SF-260 aircraft pending an investigation into the cause of the accident. The service has not released the names of the pilots who were killed. The SF-260 is an Italian-built light propeller aircraft used as the basic trainer on which Philippine cadets fly before moving on to jets; the aircraft involved were acquired from Italy.
It is the type's latest fatal accident in the Philippines: in May this year, two pilots were killed when an SF-260 trainer crashed in a mountainous area in the northern Philippines, and another SF-260 crashed during a training flight in 2023, also killing two pilots. Reuters noted in background reporting that the Philippine military also used SF-260 aircraft during months of air strikes on Marawi City in the south in 2017, after militants loyal to the Islamic State group seized the area.
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：停在停机坪上的菲律宾空军 SF-260 飞机（资料图，非事故飞机）。照片：菲律宾空军，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Philippine Air Force SF-260 aircraft on an apron (file photo; not the aircraft involved). Photo: Philippine Air Force, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
