The Air Force pilot who died in a crash near Montgomery, Alabama, was confirmed as 24-year-old Scot Ames Jr., an instructor pilot with the 50th Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi.

Ames Jr. was killed with a student pilot from the Japanese Air Self Defense Force, whose name is being withheld by authorities, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. Ames Jr. was from Pekin, Indiana.