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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.
American, Japanese pilots killed in Columbus AFB jet crash
A pilot with the Japanese Air Force died in Friday s crash of a jet from Columbus Air Force Base along with the instructor from the United States Air Force.
Posted: Feb 20, 2021 6:59 PM
Updated: Feb 22, 2021 11:13 AM
Posted By: Craig Ford
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. (WTVA) A pilot with the Japanese Air Force died in Friday s crash of a jet from Columbus Air Force Base along with his United States Air Force instructor.
Colonel Seth Graham, the commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing at the base, revealed that during a Saturday news conference concerning the crash at the airport in Montgomery, Alabama.
The U.S. Air Force says a 24-year-old instructor pilot and a student pilot from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force were killed when a trainer jet crashed in Alabama