The New Paper At least 45 dead after Philippine military plane misses runway and crashes Rescue workers arriving at the crash site as smoke billows from the wreckage of a Philippine Air Force C-130 transport plane after it crashed near the airport on Jolo island in Sulu province yesterday. PHOTO: AFP Jul 05, 2021 06:00 am 0 Engagements COTABATO, PHILIPPINES: At least 45 people died and many others were injured yesterday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country's south. Nearly 100 people, most of them recent army graduates, were on the C-130 Hercules transport plane that was trying to land on Jolo island in Sulu province around midday.