Propulsion engineer is charged with obstructing probe of deadly 2017 US military plane crash

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A former engineer at a U.S. military air logistics center is charged with making false statements and obstructing justice during a criminal investigation into a 2017 military plane crash in Mississippi that killed 16 service members. Prosecutors said Wednesday that 67-year-old James Michael Fisher was arrested Tuesday.

FILE - Family members and others look at a monument honoring the 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman who died in a July 10, 2017, U.S. military plane crash near Itta Bena, Miss., during an unveiling ceremony for the monument on July 14, 2018. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday, July 3, 2024, that a former engineer at a U.S.

A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office in northern Mississippi said she did not have information Wednesday about whether Fisher is represented by an attorney.were killed July 10, 2017, when the Marine Corps KC-130T transport plane broke into pieces in the sky and slammed into a soybean field near Itta Bena, Mississippi.

 

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