BAKU, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A MiG-29 from Azerbaijan's air force crashed into the Caspian Sea on Tuesday during a routine training mission, killing both crew members, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.

The military jet went down in the sea near the village of Shurabad north of Baku, the spokesman said, adding that a recovery operation was underway to locate the telemetric recording devices on board.

Azerbaijan last year displayed its new generation MiG-29 planes purchased from fellow ex-Soviet republic Ukraine, never clarifying how many of the jets are in its air force.

The Central Asian nation has been in low-level armed conflict with neighbour Armenia since 1988, and any public accounting of its arsenal remains a government secret. (Reporting by Afet Mekhtieva)

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