Report: Propeller blade broke, causing military plane crash
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Investigators say bad maintenance practices at a Georgia Air Force base missed a deteriorating propeller blade that broke off six years later as a U.S. Marine Corps transport plane cruised over Mississippi at 20,000 feet, causing the KC-130T to break into pieces and plunge into a soybean field, killing 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman.The report on the causes of the July 10, 2017, crash, released Wednesday, slams “consistent production errors” at Warner […]
