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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.
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Scot Ames Jr., a 24-year-old instructor pilot with the 50th Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base, was killed, along with a student pilot from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force.
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The pilot instructor stationed at Columbus Air Force Base who died in the T-38C Talon trainer aircraft mishap near Montgomery, Alabama, Feb. 19, has been identified.
One of the deceased, Scot Ames Jr., 24, was an instructor pilot with the 50th Flying Training Squadron. Ames, Jr., was from Pekin, Indiana.
The name of the second pilot, a student pilot, from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, is not being released at this time, and will be provided according to Japan’s established process.
On Saturday, Col. Seth Graham, the Commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, held a brief news conference at the base to express his sympathy for the pilots’ families and to answer questions.