CREW LOST IN MILITARY PLANE CRASH
A CREW of nine Puerto Ricans taking an Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane into retirement in Arizona are believed to have died when it crashed onto a highway in the US state of Georgia.
The plane crashed onto state highway 21 moments after taking off from the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport yesterday, narrowly missing people on the ground and sending an orange and black fireball into the sky. “It miraculously did not hit any cars, any homes,” Effingham County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Gena Bilbo said. “This is a very busy roadway.” The huge plane’s fuselage appeared to have struck the median, and pieces of its wings, which spanned 40m, were scattered across lanes in both directions. The only part still intact was the tail section.