Media outlets have reported that the pilots were able to safely eject, but the crash has started a forest fire in the area. Rescue service troops have arrived at the site of the incident.

Axar.az reports that according to the German newspaper Die Welt, two warplanes belonging to the German Armed Forces have crashed into one another near the Fleesensee in the north of the country.

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