On Wednesday, 3 January 2018, at 12:00, during a training flight, a T-2 aircraft with a crew from 120 Sq. / 363 Training Wing, crashed due to mechanical failure while flyng 2 nautical miles south of Kalamata airport.

Four brothers and a sister as well as a father, all officers in the Hellenic Air Force, are in the family of the younger of the two pilots, who yesterday successfully used the ejection seats of their T-2E Buckeye jet trainer, that crashed a small distance from the Kalamata air base.