Baghdad – INA Today, Saturday, the Security Media Cell announced the martyrdom of a pilot and his assistant, in the fall of a military training plane in the Balad district of Salah al-Din. A statement by the Security Media Cell received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) stated that "the military aircraft of the type (Caravan Caravan 172) was trained and during its normal duties and as a result of a technical defect inside it, which led to its burning and falling in the district of Balad in the Sayed Muhammad area near Balad's uninhabited apartments."