WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- An October 2015 crash of a U.S. military cargo plane in Afghanistan, in which 14 people were killed, was blamed on improper placement of a goggles case in the cockpit.
The massive C-130J four-engine cargo plane crashed within minutes of takeoff from Jalalabad Airport in eastern Afghanistan. All eleven people aboard the plane, and three Afghan guards in a guard tower that was struck by the plane, died.