Philippine military aircraft crashed after 'unrecoverable stall': armed forces

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A Philippine aircraft carrying soldiers crashed in July after an 'unrecoverable stall', killing more than 50 people in one of the country's worst military air disasters.

Full results of the investigation into a Philippine military aircraft crash in July have not been made public

Most of the dead were soldiers being deployed to the island -- a haven for Islamist militants -- as part of a counter-insurgency effort. Dozens were injured. Armed forces spokesman Colonel Ramon Zagala told AFP a component "failure" triggered a light that "caused the pilots to concentrate on that instead of recovering the stall or doing the turnaround"."Usually you can recover a stall... if you have altitude, if you're way up, but in this case it doesn't have altitude," said Zagala, without specifying which part of the aircraft failed.

The military said previously the C-130 was in "very good condition" when it crashed in sunny weather. At least three civilians who were not on the flight were also killed as the plane ploughed through coconut trees and houses.

 

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