A Red Arrows pilot who was killed after being ejected from his aircraft while on the ground is expected to be named.
The RAF said a full independent inquiry was being launched into the incident at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire.
Tuesday's accident came less than three months after another pilot with the world-famous aerobatics team, Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, 33, was killed in an air show crash in Dorset.
Medical teams were called to RAF Scampton, the base of the Red Arrows, after the incident at about 11am. The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance airlifted the pilot to Lincoln County Hospital, but his injuries were so severe that he could not be saved.
The Red Arrows completed their final display of the season in September and are carrying out their winter training at RAF Scampton.
The Red Arrows Hawk T1 jets could be seen lined up on the tarmac at a misty RAF Scampton after the accident. One of the aircraft had the front part of its canopy missing.
Flt Lt Egging crashed to his death on August 20 minutes after performing a display with the Red Arrows watched by his wife. Eyewitnesses described seeing the aircraft flying low before smashing into a field and coming to a standstill with its nose in the River Stour near the village of Throop.
Hundreds of RAF servicemen and women joined the hugely popular pilot's family and friends at a packed memorial service in Lincoln Cathedral last week.
The RAF temporarily halted flying of all 126 of its Hawk T1 training jets while preliminary investigations were carried out into the cause of the earlier tragedy.
The Red Arrows have used the dual-control BAE Systems Hawk T1, which has a top speed of Mach 1.2, since 1979. Hawk T1s are also used for training fast-jet pilots at RAF Valley in Anglesey, North Wales, and RAF Leeming, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
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