Two Emirati pilots were killed when their fighter jet crashed on Monday in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is battling Iran-backed rebels, the alliance said.
The Mirage jet crashed at dawn "due to a technical fault," said the coalition statement published by Saudi state news agency SPA, hours after the United Arab Emirates said one of its jets had gone missing.
In a statement on the UAE's official WAM news agency, the Emirati armed forces had said the jet was "missing" without giving details.
It is the first known case of an Emirati jet from the coalition crashing since the Saudi-led campaign against the Iran-backed rebels began in March last year.
Coalition warplanes turned their crosshairs on Yemen's second city Aden, home to a growing jihadist presence, for the first time last week.
Security officials and witnesses in Aden told AFP that a jet had crashed into a nearby mountain on Monday as coalition warplanes operated in the vicinity after clashes erupted between Yemeni forces and jihadists.
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have taken advantage of the conflict between Iran-backed insurgents and pro-government forces to reinforce their presence in the south, including in Aden.
A government official told AFP that a coalition jet had carried out an air raid against the home of a local IS commander at dawn, killing his 18-year-old son near the plane crash site.
Apache helicopters were also taking part in the fighting on Monday, security officials said.
"We saw Apache helicopters fire rockets and open machine gunfire at Al-Qaeda militants" in Aden's Mansura district, one witness said.
Security sources estimate that around 300 heavily armed Al-Qaeda fighters are entrenched in Mansura.
The UAE jet is the third coalition warplane to go down since March 2015.
In December, a Bahraini F-16 crashed in Saudi Arabia due to a "technical error."
The pilot was saved and the plane's wreckage was found.
In May, a Moroccan jet crashed in Yemen. Its pilot was later found dead and his body was returned home.
The coalition said at the time that crash had been caused by a technical fault or human error, and it denied rebel claims that they downed the plane.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which play key roles in the coalition, have suffered the alliance's heaviest losses in Yemen, with dozens of soldiers killed.
In Yemen itself, more than 6,100 people have died -- half of them civilians -- since the coalition launched its campaign, according to the United Nations.
AFP
Mon Mar 14 2016
Yemeni children stand next to what locals said is a piece of debris from an Emirati fighter jet, that crashed at dawn on March 14, 2016, in the southern port city of Aden. - AFP photo / SALEH AL-OBEIDI
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