An Air Force training jet recently made an emergency belly landing at a pilot training unit in Mississippi, marking the squadron’s second jet mishap in as many weeks.

The T-38C Talon’s landing gear malfunctioned in flight around 10:45 a.m. local time on Nov. 18, forcing its pilot to touch down with the wheels up at Columbus Air Force Base.

The unnamed pilot landed safely, Columbus said in a statement the same day. Air Force officials are investigating why the landing gear failed.

Air Force officials have not disclosed whether two pilots were flying in the two-seat trainer at the time, or how extensively the plane was damaged.

This is the T-38C’s third landing gear-related accident since fiscal 2012, according to safety data obtained by Air Force Times.

Ten days earlier, an instructor pilot with Columbus’s 49th Flying Training Squadron ejected from his T-38 when the jet became “inoperable,” Col. Jeremy Bergin, vice commander of the 14th Flying Training Wing at Columbus, said at a press conference.

The unnamed airman was treated at a local hospital and returned to flight, the service said. But the Nov. 8 incident totaled the aircraft, the eighth major T-38C mishap in the past five years. Six people have died in Talon accidents in that same time period.

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