ANKARA, TURKEY (BNO NEWS) -- Two people were killed on late Thursday morning when their fighter jet crashed in central Turkey, local media reported. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

The accident happened just after 11 a.m. local time when the F-4 fighter jet crashed near Konya, a city in Turkey's Central Anatolia Region, the National Turk reported. The aircraft belonged to the 3rd Air Wing of the 1st Air Force Command of the Turkish Air Force, which usually uses the F-4 as training fighter jets.

The tandem two-seat and twin-engine McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a supersonic, all-weather, long-range jet interceptor fighter/fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy by McDonnell Aircraft.

In mid-July, two people were killed when a twin-engine Cessna T-37 Tweet, a primary jet training aircraft, crashed into the Aegean Sea off the coast of Guzelbahce, a coastal district of İzmir Province in Turkey.

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