20-04-2016 00:14 via uk.news.yahoo.com

U.S. military plane crash last year caused by goggles case -Air Force

The incorrect placement of a night vision goggles case caused a U.S. military transport plane to crash in Afghanistan in October, killing 14 people, the U.S. Air Force said in a report. At the time of the crash, a spokesman for the Taliban said its fighters had shot down the aircraft, but even then the U.S. military had said enemy fire was not suspected as a factor in the crash. The Air Force report, released last week, said that in order to provide more space while loading and offloading cargo
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