Organization
The Commander of the Eritrean Air Force is Major General Teklai Habteselassie. The official headquarters of the Eritrean Air Force is located in Asmara, Eritrea.
Colonel Bezabih Petros was an Ethiopian pilot who was captured by the EPLF in the 1980's. He was then released at the conclusion of the war of independence. However, he was captured once again after his plane was shot down from the Eritrean skies while conducting a bombing raid in 1999.
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