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Five reported dead in military plane crash near Savannah, Georgia

By Phil Stewart

 

The military plane crash site is seen in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., May 2, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. JAMES LAVINE/via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Puerto Rico Air National Guard cargo plane crashed during a training mission in Savannah, Georgia, on Wednesday, killing at least five people and scattering debris across railroad tracks and a highway, officials and local media said.

 

The Hercules C-130J aircraft went down about 11:30 a.m., (1530 GMT) shortly after takeoff from the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, about 175 miles (280 km) southeast of Atlanta, officials said.

 

The four-engine plane sent up a cloud of black smoke, with a tail wing coming to rest on a median, television images showed. A witness, Michael Garrett, told WSAV-TV the plane was upside down before it crashed.

 

"That plane really flipped over on its back, slowly, like it was in slow motion,” Garrett said.

 

A Georgia Air National Guard official said five people died and four were missing, Atlanta's WSB-TV reported.

 

The U.S. Air Force confirmed to Reuters that there were fatalities but declined to provide a number. A spokesman for the Georgia Air National Guard, Captain Jeffrey Before, said in a statement that five people were on the plane when it crashed.

 

Tiffany Williams, deputy coroner of the Chatham County Coroner’s Office, said by telephone that two people were confirmed killed.

 

The crash was at least the fifth deadly accident involving a U.S. military aircraft since early April and the first of a U.S. military C-130 since July, when 16 service members were killed in a Mississippi crash.

 

Senior Master Sergeant Roger Parsons, an Air Force spokesman, said at a news conference that the cause of the crash on Wednesday was under investigation.

 

No cars were hit on the ground but power was cut to the area of the crash, said Genta Bilbo, a spokeswoman for the Effingham County Sheriff's Department.

 

The C-130 is a transport workhorse for the U.S. military, and Parsons described the crashed aircraft as a cargo plane.

 

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Additional reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington and Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Fla,; Writing by David Alexander and Ian Simpson; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Peter Cooney)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-05-03

[Stargeezr]

Pretty serious engine failure to have this C130 crash.  I wonder how much

experience the crew had in flying this airplane.

Geezer

[billd766]

2 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Pretty serious engine failure to have this C130 crash.  I wonder how much

experience the crew had in flying this airplane.

Geezer

 

According to the BBC News site http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43983718 

 

The plane belonged to Puerto Rico Air National Guard and was on a training flight, the National Guard said. Nine people are feared dead aboard the C-130 plane when it came down beside a highway intersection near the local airport in the coastal city of Savannah.

 

quote from you "I wonder how much experience the crew had in flying this airplane."

 

Certainly far more than you or I, but without any detailed information I have no way of telling, and neither do you.

 

As ex RAF groundcrew I can comfortably say that apart from intiial flying training, aircrew are quite competent in their duties and are regularly checked out both in the air and on flight simulators.