Sanaa: A technical fault or human error caused the crash of a Moroccan warplane in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday, denying that rebel fire was responsible.
"We are definitely sure it wasn`t shot down," Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri, the coalition spokesman, told AFP.
He said the F-16 pilot, who remains missing, was part of a formation, and other aircraft "did not notice any firing from the ground".
Yemen`s Shiite Huthi rebels said on Monday they had shot down a coalition warplane, shortly after Morocco reported one of its fighters missing on a sortie.
It was the first coalition aircraft to have been reported missing over Yemen in the more than six-week bombing campaign launched on March 26.
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