Air Force training jet crashes in Mississippi, but pilots eject safely
Two pilots aboard were able to eject safely
An Air Force training jet crashed near Columbus, Mississippi Wednesday, but both pilots aboard were able to safely eject from the aircraft.
The pilots were transported to a local hospital for evaluation. No houses or other structures were impacted by the crash of the aircraft.
"An Air Force T-38C Talon II crashed at about 8:30 a.m. today in a remote area near Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi," according to an Air Force statement. "Both pilots ejected from the aircraft safely."
Columbus Air Force Base is one of the bases used to train new Air Force pilots and the Talon T-38 is the service's primary training aircraft.
The crash occurred just days after active duty Air Force wings completed a one-day safety review sparked by a series of recent fatal aviation accidents. The review, in which units with flying and maintenance functions were required to ground aircraft for one day, focused on safety procedures.
Active-duty units had until May 21 to complete the one-day review, which was triggered after a series of fatal Air Force aviation accidents this year.
Air National Guard and Reserve units have until June 25 to complete the review.
The safety review came after the deadly crash in Georgia of a Puerto Rico Air National Guard WC-130 aircraft. which killed nine airmen.
That crash followed another deadly accident where a pilot from the elite Thunderbird air demonstration team last month when an F-16 crashed outside of Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
In March, seven airmen died when an HH-60 Pave Hawk crashed into a power line in western Iraq.
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