A statement released by ministry said the Eurofighter jet crashed "shortly after taking off Tuesday from Morón de la Frontera airbase in the southern Andalusia region."
A Spanish pilot who was on board to train the Saudi co-pilot managed to eject safely and was not injured, the ministry said.
Saudi Arabia sent two pilots to Spain for training following an agreement signed between Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation and Spain. The training program was part of a training project on the use of the Eurofighter EF-2000, made jointly by Spain, the UK, Italy and Germany.
The crash occurred at around 9:30 a.m. local time during a training flight aboard one of the Eurofighter Typhoon jets.
A few minutes after takeoff, the plane hit the ground for unknown reasons, said the ministry statement.
Saudi Arabia and Spain have walked an extra mile in their relationship with the launch of a Saudi pilot-training project and the announcement of the opening of an office of EADS-Casa, the Spanish aircraft manufacturer, in Jeddah after the summer holidays.
The Kingdom needs at least 200 pilots and engineers to maintain and operate its fleet of 72 Eurofighters, which it purchased for more than five billion euros.
Saudi Arabia is one of the customers for the Eurofighter, which is manufactured by an international consortium of Britain's BAE Systems, the German and Spanish arms of EADS, and Italy's Alenia Aeronautica.
