• The crash occurred in rural Mississippi late Monday night, starting a ferocious fire.• 16 passengers were killed, with no survivors.• The cause of the crash has not been released.A KC-130 operated by the Marines crashed in Mississippi Monday night, killing 16 and starting a fire amid the wreckage in a rural field. The bodies have been recovered but the exact cause of the crash has not yet been made public. Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Burns said in a statement that a KC-130 “experienced a mishap” Monday evening but provided no details. Wreckage from the crash was spread over a distances of about five miles, following the plane’s violent crash. Bodies were found on nearby U.S. Highway 82 over a mile a way from the site of the actual crash. As firefighters battled that blaze, the wreckage exploded. Jimmy Taylor//APAndy Jones, a farmer who witnessed the plane headed downward and spewing smoke after a loud boom, told the Associated Press, “You looked up and you saw the plane twirling around, it was spinning down.“An investigation is ongoing. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
