15 US Marines, 1 Navy sailor killed in Mississippi plane crash

15 US Marines 1 Sailor killed in Mississippi Plane Crash

The United States of America's Marine Corps released the names on Friday of the 15 Marines and a Navy sailor who lost their lives in a military plane crash Monday in the Mississippi Delta region.
The final set of remains was recovered Thursday from a soybean field in Leflore County where the Marine Corps KC-130 transport plane went down, killing all aboard, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said.

Six of the Marines and the sailor were from an elite Marine Raider battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C.. Nine were based out of Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., home of a Marine Aerial Refueling and Transport Squadron.

In March 2015, seven members of the same North Carolina-based command were killed in a helicopter crash off Florida, which Col. Stephen Grass, Marine Special Operations Command deputy commander said Friday was just a coincidence.

Most of the remains have been flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where Air Force mortuary personnel will release the bodies to their families.

The plane was scheduled to take the Camp Lejeune troops to Yuma, Ariz., for training. The military, along with the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, is conducting an investigation into the cause of the crash