RE: PR C-130 crash in GA. Happened on public road with departure from “public” airport. DODef is ^only^ investigator on site. NHTSA /NTSB told to stand down?
Reports say all aboard are “presumed” dead (even as of 0700 this morning). No reports regarding passenger or material manifests.
http://m.newson6.com/story.aspx?story=38095338&catId=112042
WTOC reported officials had told them the four-engine turboprop had taken off from the Savannah airport when it crashed. The station reported the C-130 was on its way to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.
It's a military crash. The NHTSA/NTSB don't have jurisdiction on any military crashes. My dad was involved in many military crash investigations many years ago as a civilian employee of the USAF. Had the military had to wait for the bureaucracy for investigation to determine cause of a crash, the military planes would have spent much of the time grounded.