A Philippine Air Force plane, pushed from the U.S. government earlier this year, crashed on the southern island of Jolo on Sunday morning, killing 42 people aboard and three civilians on the ground.
July 4 (UPI) — A Philippine Air Force plane, pushed from the U.S. government earlier this year, crashed on the southern island of Jolo on Sunday morning, killing 42 people aboard and three civilians on the ground. The Lockheed Martin C-130 military plane, which was carrying 96 personnel, including three pilots and five crew members, was going from Cagayan de Oro, in Mindanao, to Sulu province when it missed the runway on the island of Jolo into nearby Patikul village, the head of the Philippine armed forces, Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, said in a report by The New York Times. Patikul is a stronghold of the militant group known as Abu Sayyaf. The crash occurred at 11:30 a.m. local time, CNN reported. “Minutes after the crash, troops and civilian volunteers rushed to the site for search and rescue,” according to a press release by Joint Task Force Sulu.
