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(Share)         (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=https://www.jpost.com/)      Follow us on Google     (Illustrative; A Mirage 2000D fighter jet leaves the tarmac to join the runway during the VOLFA-25 exercise organized by the French Air and Space Force at the 118th Air Base in Mont-de-Marsan in the Landes department in western France on October 2, 2025.) (Illustrative; A Mirage 2000D fighter jet leaves the tarmac to join the runway during the VOLFA-25 exercise organized by the French Air and Space Force at the 118th Air Base in Mont-de-Marsan in the Landes department in western France on October 2, 2025.)   Illustrative; A Mirage 2000D fighter jet leaves the tarmac to join the runway during the VOLFA-25 exercise organized by the French Air and Space Force at the 118th Air Base in Mont-de-Marsan in the Landes department in western France on October 2, 2025.  (photo credit: Véronique Tournier / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images )    By REUTERS ,  (https://www.jpost.com/author/jerusalem-post-staff) JERUSALEM POST STAFF    OCTOBER 21, 2026 10:02  Updated:  OCTOBER 21, 2026 15:33   One person was killed, and one other was missing after a military plane crashed in the northeast of (https://www.jpost.com/international/article-912255) France on Tuesday evening, France's armed forces ministry said on Wednesday.  The French air force Mirage 2000D came down in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region with two people on board, the ministry said.   A (https://www.jpost.com/international/article-911984) fighter pilot and a weapons systems navigator were on the plane, Colonel Ludovic Humbert, commander of Air Base 133 in Nancy-Ochey, said.  "They were on a (https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909457) training mission involving a night flight, which ultimately led to this situation and this accident," Humbert added.  (French military personnel take part in a rescue operation to search for a Mirage 2000D fighter jet that crashed during a training flight, in Tremblecourt, north-eastern France on October 21, 2026.)  French military personnel take part in a rescue operation to search for a Mirage 2000D fighter jet that crashed during a training flight, in Tremblecourt, north-eastern France on October 21, 2026. (credit: ROMEO BOETZLE / AFP via Getty Images)    Cause of crash unknown, search for missing individual ongoing  According to France’s Le Monde , authorities have not yet commented on the potential cause of the (https://www.jpost.com/international/article-910597) crash , but an investigation into the incident has been opened.   French National Gendarmerie helicopters were reportedly spotted flying over the scene Wednesday morning, and searches for the missing individual were initially postponed because of poor weather.     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