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[Fair Use: For Educational and Research Purposes Only]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
CBCTue 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.