A deceased pilot and another injured in a training plane crash in Texas – United States

One pilot died and another was hospitalized after the crash of a training plane at the Laughlin Air Force base in Texas on Tuesday night.

The T-38 Heel of the Air Force was extinguished at 19:40. local time, officials said on Laughlin's official Facebook page.

The names of the pilots are not disclosed pending the notification of the next of kin, says a statement from the Air Force.

A bid council will meet to investigate the incident, the statement said. Other details have not been disclosed.

Late last month, the Air Force fired three senior commanders in Laughlin, citing concerns over dangerous and threatening behavior during the pilot training facility, Education Command announced. and flight training of the service.

The head of the AETC, Lieutenant General Steven Kwast, fired Colonel Charles Velino, commander of 47 Flight Training Squadron, as well as the commanders of his group of operations and his Flight Training Squadron, citing "chronic leadership failures" raised during an investigation into a general officer misconduct within the unit, according to a statement from the Army's # 39; air.

The statement did not name the commanders of the operations group nor the flight training squadron.

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