The crash of a PLA Navy Aviation JH-7A fighter-bomber aircraft during training in Ledong, Hainan, was announced on March 12, by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense. The announcement said two pilots were killed and no ground casualties were caused. Reports said according to a local family member of Ledong, one of the dead pilots was born in 1982 and the other was born in 1992. Xinhua News Agency attributed the accident to the bombing system of the JH-7A. The video released by Multidimensional News shows that the plane crashed into a primary school. The JH-7A is a fighter-bomber developed by China's Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group and is mainly used for deep combat strikes and has the ability to strike against targets at sea. The aircraft is currently in service with the Chinese Navy. Although the Chinese military has recently intensified its actual combat training, which has brought great pressure to aircraft and pilots, the JH-7A itself is also a fighter called “widow maker”. 

According to public statistics, since 1988, a total of 300 aircraft of the JH-7 series has been produced, but 12 have crashed resulting in the death of at least 17 pilots. On April 4, 1994, a prototype of the JH-7 crashed and the test pilot died. In 1996, the 16th Regiment of the 6th Regiment of the PLA Naval Air Force crashed and smashed into a high-speed taxi. On August 12, 1996, in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province, test pilot Yang Xiaobin and navigator Tang Chunwen crashed while flying a JH-7 on a 'return' flight. On July 19, 2009, during the Sino-Russian "Peace Mission-2009" military exercise, a fifteenth regiment of the Fifth Division of the Chinese Air Force Aviation Division, a JH-7A crashed in the Weinan base at Jilin, and two pilots died. In September 2009, a former JH-7A crashed in the Nanjing Military Region. Yubin, the former chief of staff of the 83rd regiment of the 28th Division and former air force pilot, died in the rear cabin. On April 15, 2010, a JH-7A of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Naval Air Force crashed. The head of the Eighteenth Division of the Sixth Division, Mu Hua, and pilot first-class Lai Chaoyang died. On October 14, 2011, a Chinese Air Force test pilot of a JH-7A crashed during an air show. The front cabin pilot Yu Jinwang died and the rear cabin pilot escaped. On November 7, 2011, a JH-7A of a squadron of the Eighteenth Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Naval Air Force crashed. The sixth division commander Ye Bin and the first-class navigator and the deputy director of the brigade led by Ming Jian died. On June 5, 2014, one JH-7A of the Eighteenth Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Naval Air Force crashed, and the Navy Captain Hua Peng and the Navy Major Zhao Peng died. On December 22, 2014, a JH--7A crashed in Weinan, Shaanxi. The first batch of aircraft carrier-borne fighter pilot pilots Air Force Colonel Lu Zhiyong and space system test pilot Wen Zhiping died. On October 22, 2016, a JH-7A crashed in Guangxi and two pilots escaped. On March 12, 2019, a JH-7A crashed in Ledong, Hainan, and two pilots died.