At least 16 killed as US military plane crashes in Mississippi, search on for others.

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A military transport aircraft gone down in southern US state of Mississippi's Delta region on Monday, killing at least 16 inhabitants on board, officials said.
"A KC-130 military refueling tanker gone down about 85 miles (135 kilometers) north of state capital Jackson", Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks told the Reuters.
Banks said that a helicopter were looking for others in the dark around the crash site in a soybean field on Monday, more than five hours after the KC-130 refueling tanker spiraled to the ground into a soybean field.

The crash was reported about 4 p.m. local time and remains from the aircraft was scattered in a radius of about 5 miles (8 kilometers). An powerful fire fed by jet fuel hampered firefighters, Banks said, causing them to turn to unmanned devices in an attempt to control the flames.
"We were driven away by quite a few high-intensity explosions," he said.

CRASH PICTURES SHOW leftovers OF PLANE BURNING

Aerial pictures taken by a local showed the skeleton of the airplane burning powerfully, producing plumes of black smoke noticeable for miles across the flat landscape of the delta.
Austin Jones, who owns a adjacent farm, said the fire nonstop after sunset.
"It's burning worse now than it was early in the afternoon," said Jones. He said his son watched the airplane go down while working on the farm and said it was smoking as it descended.
The occurrence was a "disaster", Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant said in a proclamation on social medium site Facebook, but gave no details.

The Marine Corps said it operated the airplane but had given no information on where the flight originated or where it was going.


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