A Turkish C-130 military cargo plane with at least 20 personnel on board has crashed in Georgia yesterday after taking off from Azerbaijan. The number of casualties and the cause of the incident were not yet clear.
Turkey’s Defence Ministry said 20 Turkish personnel were on board, including the flight crew, but provided no additional details on possible passengers of other nationalities.
Meanwhile, the local media reports, there were both Turkish and Azeri personnel on board the U.S.-made aircraft but gave no numbers.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan expressed condolences for martyrs. U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack, said on X that he was “deeply saddened by tragic crash and Washington stands in solidarity with its Turkish allies.
The C-130 Hercules is a cargo, troop and equipment carrier aircraft with four-engines