ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the deadly military plane crash in Mississippi (all times local): 10:40 a.m. A Marine spokesman says a Navy corpsman and 15 Marines were killed in when a military plane crashed in rural Mississippi as it was headed from North Carolina to California.
Marine Corps Maj. Andrew Aranda says Tuesday that the flight of the KC-130T originated Monday from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The plane was taking people and equipment to Naval Air Field El Centro, California, when it crashed Monday afternoon in a soybean field near Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Aranda says many of the Marines were from a unit based in New York with active duty and reserve members. The Marine Corps says personal weapons and small-arms ammunition were aboard.
8:45 a.m.
Marine Corps officials say the plane that crashed in Mississippi’s Delta region belonged to a reserve unit.
Though the KC-130 refueling tanker took off from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, Capt. John Roberts said Tuesday that the plane was under the command of the 4th Marine Air Wing, which is part of the Marine Forces Reserve, headquartered in New Orleans.
Lt. Col. Tanya Murnock says the names of the 16 people killed in the crash are being withheld while loved ones are notified.
The KC-130 spiraled into a soybean field about 4 p.m. Monday, spreading debris for miles and resulting in fiery wreckage that burned for hours.
7:55 a.m.
The U.S. military plane that crashed in a soybean field in rural Mississippi killing at least 16 people on board originated from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina. The station is about 115 miles (185 kilometers) southeast of Raleigh and about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the Atlantic Ocean.
The station was authorized by Congress just before the start of World War II and trained units and individual Marines for the Pacific theater of the war.
Cherry Point also provided units in the Vietnam War, the Korean War, as well as the Gulf War and operations in Southwest Asia in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It supports the 2nd Marine Aviation Wing, providing, among other services, KC-130 aircraft used for in-flight refueling.
The station covers 45 square miles (115 square kilometers) and has nearly 14,000 Marines, sailors and civilian employees.
7:30 a.m.
President Donald Trump is offering condolences to the families of those who died in a tragic military plane crash in Mississippi.
A U.S. military plane used for refueling crashed into a soybean field in rural Mississippi on Monday, killing at least 16 people aboard. The fiery wreckage spread debris for miles.
Trump tweeted early Tuesday, “Marine Plane crash in Mississippi is heartbreaking. Melania and I send our deepest condolences to all!”
The KC-130 plane was from the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.
Officials did not release information on what caused the crash.
7:30 a.m.
No more smoke is rising the day after the fiery crash of a U.S. military plane in a field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people.
State patrol units blocked all farm roads on U.S. Highway 82 on Tuesday morning about two miles away from the wreckage to keep anyone who isn’t law enforcement or a response unit out of the area. Some fog has accumulated in the field near the crash site.
Workers from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks could be seen sitting on ATV four wheelers at a command center across from Mississippi Valley State University.
The Marine KC-130 crashed Monday afternoon, leaving a fiery wreckage and spreading debris for miles.
6:40 a.m.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis says the KC-130 that crashed in Mississippi and killed 16 people was from the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.
Tillis, who represents North Carolina, said in a statement Tuesday morning that he and his wife are extending their deepest condolences to the families of the Marines who were killed, as well as to the Cherry Point station and the community of Havelock.
Tillis said the crash is a reminder of the dangers that military personnel face even on training missions.
The North Carolina senator is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel.
The refueling aircraft crashed Monday afternoon in a soybean field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard.
No other details were immediately available on the crew members and where they lived.
3 a.m.
Officials say a U.S. military plane used for refueling crashed into a field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles and creating fiery wreckage.
Leflore (le-FLOR’) County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle told reporters at a late Monday briefing that 16 bodies had been recovered after the KC-130 spiraled into the ground about 85 miles (135 kilometers) north of Jackson in the Mississippi Delta.
Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Burns said in a statement that a KC-130 “experienced a mishap” Monday evening but provided no details. The KC-130 is used as a refueling tanker.
Sorry to hear about the corpsman.
One of my best friends when I worked at the Army corps of engineers in Seattle doing IT work was an x vietnam vet corpsman.
That guy was cooler then sht.
We would skip out at lunch in his rag top beamer back to his place and smoke skunk weed and get just fking ripped.
This guy had nerves of wood and steel.
Nothing scared him..
I’ll never forget …we were coming back from lunch from his place just ripped one sunny afternoon.
Well he pulled into the left hand turning lane.
Well it wasn’t a turning lane .
It was the lane for ongoing traffic heading east.
So on coming traffic started coming at us making a left coming south honking and weaving at us almost hitting us head on in his beamer with the top down.
We’re all stoned and fked up.
Then one guy in a truck honked , swirved and yelled at him.
That’s a straight lane not a fkng turning lane you asshole…!
He didn’t even flinch. ..
He screamed back at the guy…
“NOT WHILE I’M HERE !”
So we sat blocking the ongoing traffic lane.
Waited for the light to turn green again and made a left and proceeded back to work ripped.
Then acted like it never happened.
Funny how they never mentioned anywhere in this article how it happened. I smell sabotage. Shit like this just doesn’t happen out of the blue. Spiral out of control, my ass. More like sabotaged or shot down.
Like i commented before
who was on that plane that NEEDED to die?
or should i say that someone wanted them to die?