Family blasts fatal T-38 crash report as ‘grossly incomplete,’ demands simultaneous landings end
Stephen Losey
An Air Force investigation into the fatal crash of a T-38C Talon training aircraft last November faulted its instructor pilot for failing to take control of the plane as a dangerous situation unfolded, according to a report released Friday.
The report into the crash, which killed both instructor pilot Lt. Col. John “Matt†Kincade, 47, and student pilot 2nd Lt. Travis Wilkie, 23, said missteps taken by the student pilot also contributed to the crash.
But in a statement also released Friday, Wilkie’s parents blasted the report as “grossly and unjustly incomplete." The Wilkie family said the report should have included the fact that he was attempting to land simultaneously alongside another T-38 — with which his plane collided during the doomed landing — as an “obvious contributing cause†to the crash.
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