According to provincial officials, two people died after a military jet crashed near Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama.
The plane was a two-seater T-38 aircraft, Christina Thornton, director of the emergency management agency of Montgomery, told Fox News on Friday night. Authorities asked drivers to avoid the intersection between Selma Highway and Lamar Road.
Although local media reported that the National Transportation Safety Board had sent a team to the scene, a spokesman said the agency had no jurisdiction over the crash because it involved a military aircraft on a military mission. .
A T-38 Talon flies over the Gulf of Mexico in March 2017. (Photo of the US Air Force by Master General Burt Traynor / released)
The T-38 is used by the air force and navy for training. The Alabama Air National Guard has three main bases across the state in Birmingham, Dothan and Montgomery, near the crash site.
Thornton said Air National Guard officers at the same airport, along with police, firefighters and other local first responders, responded to the scene. This is a standard procedure.
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“We practice together, we react together,” Thornton said.
Military officials did not immediately respond to Fox News’ requests for comment.
The airport’s executive director, Marshall Taggart Jr., told WSFA 12 that the plane crashed near a residential area but did not hit any structures on the ground.