At least 45 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the south of the country, officials said. Ninety-two people, most of them recent army graduates, were onboard the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft when the accident happened as the plane tried to land on Jolo island in Sulu province at about midday on Sunday.
Photos taken by local media outlet Pondohan TV and posted on Facebook showed the wrecked body of the plane engulfed in flames. A plume of thick black smoke rose above houses near the crash site.
At least 29 people die in military plane crash in Philippines