A U.S. aircraft crashed in Mississippi Monday night and all 16 passengers on board are dead.
Fred Randle, County emergency management director, confirmed that there were no survivors in the crash and all 16 victims were .
The plane crashed in a soybean field in Leflore County, located about 100 miles north of Jackson, Miss. The debris from the crash scattered throughout a five-mile radius.
A Mississippi state trooper told WMC Action News 5 that the plane had a great deal of ammunition on board, making investigation efforts difficult.
“There’s a lot of ammo in the plane. That’s why we are keeping so far back. We just don’t know what it’ll do. It burns a bit then goes out, burns a little more then dies down,” the trooper said.
Investigators also told the news crew that they believe the plane exploded in mid-air.
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