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MADE Yemeni military jet has ploughed into a residential district of the capital Sanaa, killing the pilot, officials say, as witnesses said it exploded in mid-air before crashing.

People and police officers try to recover charred bodies of the driver and passengers by cutting the wreckage of a burnt taxi at the site of a military aircraft crash in Sanaa February 19, 2013.

A Russian-made Yemeni military jet has crashed into a residential district of the capital Sanaa killing the pilot, an army official told AFP news agency.

This is the site of a deadly air crash in Yemen's capital Sanaa. A Yemeni air force plane slammed into a residential area of the city on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 15 others.

A Yemeni military aircraft ploughed into a building in a residential neighbourhood of Sanaa on Tuesday, killing the pilot and at least 11 civilians, medics and witnesses said.