Military Plane Crashes In Mississippi. Here’s What You Need To Know.

On Monday afternoon, in what the Marine Corps has described as a tragic “mishap,” a Marine refueling and transport plane crashed in the Mississippi Delta, killing 16 people, according to local authorities.

The crash occurred around 4 p.m. on Monday on the Sunflower-Leflore county line. The plane crashed in a rural area near County Road 547, which the New York Times describes as “a dirt road that connects acres of farmland between Itta Bena and Moorhead.”