A U.S. military plane crashed near an airport in Alabama on Friday while on a training exercise, killing two people aboard including a member of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, the Japanese Defense Ministry said Saturday.The ministry said the ASDF officer, in his 20s and a first lieutenant, lost his life aboard a U.S. Air Force T-38 aircraft, which was about to land at Montgomery airport, in the first fatal crash involving ASDF members studying in the United States.An instructor from the Air Force also aboard the plane died.The plane, which belonged to the Columbus Air Force Base in Mi…READ FULL ARTICLE
