JORDAN - Military Plane Crash; 14 Killed

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Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:19

Jordanian Military Plane Goes Down

(IsraelWire-7/25-11:20-DST) According to the official Petra News Agency, A Royal Jordanian Air Force plane crashed on Tuesday morning due to a technical failure, killing all the officers on board.

The C130 plane was on a training flight when it crashed, killing all fourteen military personnel onboard. The victims were of various military ranks. No additional information is available at this time.

http://www.israelwire.com/New/000725/00072517.html

-- (Dee360Degree@aol.com), July 25, 2000

Answers

CBC

Tue Jul 25, 8:53 am

Jordanian military plane crashes

A military cargo plane crashed Tuesday morning in the Jordanian desert. All 14 soldiers on board were killed.

The plane was a C-130 Hercules.

Its pilot apparently reported some kind of technical fault just before it went down. It was on a training flight at the time.

The accident occurred about 50 kilometres east of Amman.

The C-130 was one of a dozen cargo planes the United States gave to Jordan in 1996 as a reward for signing a peace treaty with Israel.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), July 25, 2000.


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