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Witness Andy Jones told the AP he saw the plane spiral into the ground.
Military Plane Crash Kills 16 In Mississippi : The Two-Way : NPR
Appearing with General James, Marshall L. Fisher, commissioner of the State Department of Public Safety, warned that the wreckage contained explosives. He cautioned people in the rural area not to touch any debris, both for safety’s sake, and because removal of it could be a crime.
“There are items that are going to be recovered by teams on the ground; some of them may be unsafe,” he said. He later noted that “there are ordnance disposal teams in the area” who may be causing controlled explosions throughout the search.
The KC-130 family, consisting of four-engine turboprops, is a variant of C-130 transport, a venerable mainstay of the United States military. The KC-130T is designed for aerial refueling of other aircraft but can also be used to carry people and gear."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/us/mississippi-marine-transport-plane-crash.html
"Jones said he was working on his family's catfish farm just before 4 p.m. when he heard a boom and looked up to see the plane corkscrewing downward with one engine smoking.
" 'You looked up and you saw the plane twirling around,' he said. 'It was spinning down.'
"Jones said the plane hit the ground behind some trees in a soybean field, and by the time he and others reached the crash site, fires were burning too intensely to approach the wreckage. The force of the crash nearly flattened the plane, Jones said.
" 'Beans are about waist-high, and there wasn't much sticking out above the beans,' he said."
" 'You looked up and you saw the plane twirling around,' he said. 'It was spinning down.'
"Jones said the plane hit the ground behind some trees in a soybean field, and by the time he and others reached the crash site, fires were burning too intensely to approach the wreckage. The force of the crash nearly flattened the plane, Jones said.
" 'Beans are about waist-high, and there wasn't much sticking out above the beans,' he said."
Military Plane Crash Kills 16 In Mississippi : The Two-Way : NPR
Appearing with General James, Marshall L. Fisher, commissioner of the State Department of Public Safety, warned that the wreckage contained explosives. He cautioned people in the rural area not to touch any debris, both for safety’s sake, and because removal of it could be a crime.
“There are items that are going to be recovered by teams on the ground; some of them may be unsafe,” he said. He later noted that “there are ordnance disposal teams in the area” who may be causing controlled explosions throughout the search.
The KC-130 family, consisting of four-engine turboprops, is a variant of C-130 transport, a venerable mainstay of the United States military. The KC-130T is designed for aerial refueling of other aircraft but can also be used to carry people and gear."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/us/mississippi-marine-transport-plane-crash.html
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