August 9, 2002	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 29,1423

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SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico), Aug 8: A U.S. air force cargo plane crashed on a mountaintop in Puerto Rico during a storm, killing all 10 people on board, a military spokesman said on Thursday.

The C-130 prop-driven airplane left the Roosevelt Roads naval station in eastern Puerto Rico on a routine training mission and crashed on Wednesday night near Caguas, 24kms south of San Juan, said a spokesman in Puerto Rico for the US military.—Reuters