Aircraft from the the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi may be arriving at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as early as Tuesday to seek shelter from severe weather impacting the southern states.
2 pilots, one US, one Japanese, killed in training flight crash in Alabama February 20
A T-38 training jet , like the ones pictured here, crashed near Montgomery, Alabama on Friday, killing the two pilots on board, Air Force officials said. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/Air Force) Two pilots died when a training aircraft crashed outside Montgomery, Alabama on Friday evening, Air Force officials say. The cause of the plane crash is not immediately clear. A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot, 25, and a pilot from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, 24, were on a training flight from Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, to Tallahassee, Florida, when their T-38 trainer jet crashed near Danley Field in Alabama, according to Col. Seth Graham, commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing.