{"id":34273,"date":"2017-07-11T05:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34273"},"modified":"2017-07-11T05:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T05:47:34","slug":"u-s-military-plane-crashes-in-mississippi-16-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/u-s-military-plane-crashes-in-mississippi-16-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. military plane crashes in Mississippi, 16 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. military plane crashes in Mississippi, 16 dead<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">U.S. military plane crashes in Mississippi, 16 dead:- A U.S. military plane crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday evening killing at least 16 people, a regional emergency management official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">No official details were immediately available on the circumstances of the crash in northern Mississippi&#8217;s LeFlore County, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Captain Sarah Burns, a spokeswoman for the Marine Corps, said only that a U.S. Marines KC-130 Hercules transport aircraft had &#8220;experienced a mishap,&#8221; with news media initially reporting five confirmed deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Several hours later, Fred Randle, LeFlore County director of emergency management, told Reuters that at least 16 people had perished. Randle gave no further details of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">WSOC-TV in Charlotte reported, citing the Federal Aviation Administration, that the flight originated from Cherry Point, North Carolina, where a Marine Corps air base is located.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">FBI spokesman Brett Carr told the New York Times that the agency was sending officials to the scene, but authorities did not believe foul play was involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;We\u2019re just trying to offer any type of assistance,&#8221; Carr, a spokesman for the bureau\u2019s Jackson, Mississippi office, told the newspaper. &#8220;It could be anything from manpower to evidence response.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant said in a statement on social media site Facebook that the incident was a tragedy, but provided no details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Images posted online by news organizations showed the crumpled wreckage of a plane engulfed in flames in a field surrounded by tall vegetation, with a large plume of smoke in the sky above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The aircraft is used for air-to-air refueling, to carry cargo and perform tactical passenger missions. 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