Overview
- Pilots received an unsafe landing-gear indication, consulted with ground experts, conducted a controlled bailout and the T-6A later crashed following a reported hard landing at an uncontrolled airfield.
- Both airmen are assigned to the 12th Flying Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio–Randolph and are being evaluated by local medical personnel while their conditions remain undisclosed.
- The Air Force has not released a cause for the landing-gear warning or details about aircraft damage, and a formal incident investigation or review has been announced.
- The T-6A Texan II is the service’s primary single-engine, two-seat trainer equipped with ejection seats and a Pratt & Whitney PT6A turboprop engine, which frames the event as a training-flight emergency rather than an operational combat loss.
- The base is expected to conduct immediate safety checks and technical inspections of landing-gear systems, following a pattern in past training-aircraft probes that have found mechanical faults or procedural lapses.