Quote:Five dead in military plane crash near airport in Savannah, Georgia.SOURCE:
Police have said it was an "absolute miracle" that no cars were hit after the aircraft came down at a highway intersection.
'At least five people have died after a National Guard cargo plane crashed near an airport in Savannah, Georgia.
An official from the Georgia Air National Guard confirmed the fatalities after the C-130J aircraft went down at the intersection
of Highway 21 and Crossgate Road at around 11.30am local time on Wednesday.
A photo tweeted by the Savannah Professional Firefighters Association showed its wrecked tail end, with a plume of black
smoke rising from the wreckage and fire spreading through a roadside field.
Emergency services were called to the scene a few miles from Savannah Hilton Head International Airport.
The plane was from the Air National Guard 156th Air Wing based in Puerto Rico and was bound for Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base in Arizona.
Local roads were closed and some flights at the airport - from where the smoke is visible - have been affected.
Gena Bilbo, from Effingham County Sheriff's Office, told a press conference that parts of Highway 21 could be closed for
weeks, with nearby train tracks also damaged.
"As far as we know, no cars were hit which is an absolute miracle," she added.
A spokesman for the Georgia Air National Guard, Captain Jeffrey Bezore, said the four-engine aircraft, which had five
people on board, was on a training mission...'
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