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Old 05-02-2008 | 04:43 PM
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http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/...ay/02/victims/

Col. David Petersen, 80th Flying Training Wing commander, identified the two pilots who died yesterday in a T-38C crash at Sheppard during a press conference Friday afternoon at the base. Petersen said the instructor pilot was Maj. Brad Funk, 35, a member of the 90th Flying Training Squadron at Sheppard and the student pilot was 2nd Lt. Alec Littler, 23, a student pilot in the 80th Flying Training Wing's Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.
Funk and Littler were on a routine training flight and were on approach to Sheppard's airfield when the crash occurred at 7:55 a.m. Thursday. Officials at the base the cause of the crash has not been determined. The Air Force grounded all T-38s in wake of the crash at Sheppard and another T-38 crash that occurred April 23 at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. where two pilots also died.
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