<p>Singapore: Singapore will resume flying its F-16 fleet after suspending training when <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/world/singapore-air-force-f-16-jet-crashes-after-takeoff-3013491">one of the jets crashed earlier this month</a>, the defence ministry on Saturday.</p>.<p>The defence ministry said the May 8 crash was due to the plane's pitch rate gyroscopes giving erroneous inputs to the flight control computer.</p>.<p>"This led to the pilot being unable to control the plane at take-off," the statement said. The pilot ejected successfully.</p>.<p>F-16 fighter jets are fitted with four such gyroscopes. A simultaneous failure is very rare occurrence and a first for Singapore's fleet, the ministry said.</p>.<p>It added that all pitch rate gyroscopes will be checked and cleared before flights resume, and that the air force and F-16 manufacturer Lockheed Martin will look into the specific cause behind the malfunction.</p>.<p>The May crash was the first one for a Singapore fighter jet since 2004 when an F-16C went down during a night training mission in the US state of Arizona, killing the 25-year-old pilot, according to local media CNA.</p>
<p>Singapore: Singapore will resume flying its F-16 fleet after suspending training when <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/world/singapore-air-force-f-16-jet-crashes-after-takeoff-3013491">one of the jets crashed earlier this month</a>, the defence ministry on Saturday.</p>.<p>The defence ministry said the May 8 crash was due to the plane's pitch rate gyroscopes giving erroneous inputs to the flight control computer.</p>.<p>"This led to the pilot being unable to control the plane at take-off," the statement said. The pilot ejected successfully.</p>.<p>F-16 fighter jets are fitted with four such gyroscopes. A simultaneous failure is very rare occurrence and a first for Singapore's fleet, the ministry said.</p>.<p>It added that all pitch rate gyroscopes will be checked and cleared before flights resume, and that the air force and F-16 manufacturer Lockheed Martin will look into the specific cause behind the malfunction.</p>.<p>The May crash was the first one for a Singapore fighter jet since 2004 when an F-16C went down during a night training mission in the US state of Arizona, killing the 25-year-old pilot, according to local media CNA.</p>