Update: 4 US soldiers injured as result of military plane crash in Iraqi base

SANAA, June 9 (YPA) – Four American soldiers were injured as a result of the crash of an American forces plane while it was landing at Taji Air Force Base in northern Iraq.
Alsumaria News site quoted a security source as saying in a statement on Tuesday that a US “C-130” plane crashed during its landing at Taji base after the engine burned, attributing the plane’s crashes to a technical defect.

For his part, another security source confirmed to Sputnik the news of the crash, saying that the plane veered off the runway and crashed into a barrier of concrete blocks, and was exposed to an accident that injured four of the 16 American soldiers on board, in addition to the damage to its structure.