TIRANA, April 1: All nine US military personnel died when their plane crashed in an isolated snow-covered area of Albania, a defence ministry spokesman said on Friday. “None of the US military personnel has survived the accident late Thursday,” said spokesman Agim Doci. He said that five bodies were found in the wreckage of the C-130 transport plane. Another four were found early Friday, after the plane had struck a mountain after apparently flying too low in an uninhabited region near the town of Gramsh, 150 kilometres south of the Albanian capital Tirana.
The plane, which had been in Albania to take part in joint military manoeuvres with Albanian forces, had taken off from Tirana’s Rinas military base and was to monitor the mountainous region in the south of the country.—AFP
