Marine Corps aviation disaster that killed 16 renews questions about U.S. military aircraft safety

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Marine Corps aviation disaster that killed 16 renews questions about U.S. military aircraft safety

In 2017, 15 Marines and a sailor were killed in a transport plane crash in Itta Bena, Miss. (AP)
By Dan Lamothe
December 6 at 6:40 PM

High over the American Southeast, a Marine transport plane was cruising at 20,000 feet through clear skies when disaster struck.

A corroded propeller blade on the left wing of the KC-130T broke free, punching a gaping hole in the fuselage. That prompted a chain reaction in which a propeller on the opposite wing snapped away and cut through the aircraft. The plane disintegrated in explosions and plummeted into a soybean field near the Mississippi town of Itta Bena.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/marine-corps-aviation-disaster-that-killed-16-renews-questions-about-us-military-aircraft-safety/2018/12/06/e3576992-f96c-11e8-863a-8972120646e0_story.html?utm_term=.eb1c4bd8d274