A US Air Force C-130 overshot the runway at Iraq’s Taji Airbase at 10:10 p.m. local time on Monday and crashed into a wall, causing a small fire and structural damage, the official military spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve said in a Monday statement.
“The airfield fire and rescue team were on the scene within 4 minutes, extinguished the fire, and assisted an evacuation of the plane. Four Service Members on the plane sustained non-life-threatening injuries and are being treated at Camp Taji’s medical facility,” the statement notes.
The C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed by US aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin.
Camp Taji is a military installation used by coalition forces and located about 17 miles north of the city of Baghdad.
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