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To: sodpoodle

Does that mean 3 people survived? I heard 5 were aboard.


2 posted on 05/02/2018 10:30:26 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Yes - according to the reporter. Video is very informative.


4 posted on 05/02/2018 10:32:42 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
UPDATE: 2 dead, at least 3 more hurt in military plane crash in Savannah

] By Savannah Morning News
Posted at 11:51 AM Updated at 1:15 PM

A C-130 Hercules cargo plane from Puerto Rico Air National Guard has crashed near the intersection of Ga. 21 and Crossgate Road in Savannah. According to the Chatham County Coroner, two people are dead.

According to a press release from Jeffrey Bezore, Wing Executive Officer 165th Airlift Wing, the crash happened around 11:30 a.m. during a training mission with five people on board.

Mark Jones was near the intersection of Highway 21 and Gulfstream Road when he noticed the plane low in the air.

“I could see (the plane) above the tree line and it looked kind of low like it was curving in toward street, but I see them all the time, so I didn’t think anything of it,” Jones said.

“I looked down and then looked back up and it didn’t look like it nosedived, but it almost looked like it stalled and just went almost flat right there in the middle of the highway.”

Jones said the explosion happened immediately upon impact and believes the plane could have landed on cars.

“There were definitely cars going both ways... Most people stopped and got out of their cars,” he said.

“I’m still shook up and shaking. My stomach is in knots because I know they’re people just like me. I wasn’t that far from it and I could have just kept going and it would have been me and we wouldn’t be talking right now. They were just people driving to where ever and not expecting something like that to happen.”

5 posted on 05/02/2018 10:37:59 AM PDT by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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