A Pakistan Army Aviation Mushshak training aircraft crashed near Nawan Killi on the outskirts of Quetta (the capital of Balochistan province in south-western Pakistan) at midday on Monday, killing both pilots on board, the military said. The army's media wing blamed a technical fault and named the dead as instructor Major Husnain Shehzad Humayun and student Captain Abdul Samad. The crash adds to a series of recent Pakistani military aviation accidents, including a helicopter crash near Muzaffarabad and an air force training crash in Mardan in June, and the country's president, prime minister and interior minister offered condolences.