PhotoATLANTA — At least 16 people were believed dead after a military plane crashed in the Mississippi Delta on Monday, prompting an urgent rescue effort in one of the South’s most rural regions, the authorities said. Fred Randle, the emergency management director in Leflore County, Miss., said in a brief interview late Monday that officials thought at least 16 people had died in the crash. Ms. Beavers said the military plane crashed along County Road 547, a dirt road that connects acres of farmland between Itta Bena and Moorhead. Military aircraft are a common sight in the skies of rural Mississippi, their jet engines reverberating over miles of farmland. Mayor Carolyn McAdams of Greenwood, the county seat, said military officials were traveling to the crash scene on Monday night.

Source: New York Times July 11, 2017 02:40 UTC