(CNN)Emergency crews are responding to a military cargo plane crash Wednesday in Savannah, Georgia, said a spokeswoman for the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.
The US Air Force confirmed that an Air National Guard C-130 crashed in the area.
The crash did not occur at the airport but a few miles away, off state Highway 21, airport spokeswoman Candace Carpenter said. Smoke was visible from the airport.
“It was horrible,” said Denver Goodwin, who works at a wrecker service down the street from the crash. “The ground shook like a bomb was going off. All the people in the building started panicking. It was absolutely horrible.”
Video from CNN affiliate WSAV shows thick black smoke and flames billowing from what appears to be a green hangar or warehouse.
Minh Phan was at an outlet mall in Pooler, Georgia, a few miles away when he captured an image of smoke rising over the tree line.
A tweet from the Savannah Professional Firefighters Association showed the tail of the plane emerging from black smoke and fire. Highway 21 has been shut down, the union said.
（中央社喬治亞州薩凡納2日綜合外電報導）美國媒體報導，聯邦航空總署（FAA）指出，軍方一架C-130式大力士型運輸機（C-130 Hercules）在喬治亞州薩凡納（Savannah）附近機場起飛不久便墜毀，機上搭載5人。
福斯新聞頻道（Fox News）報導，這架運輸機原定飛往亞利桑那州的大衛斯-蒙桑空軍基地（Davis-Monthan Air Force Base）。從地面上拍到的照片顯示，大火和濃煙吞沒飛機。
有線電視新聞網（CNN）報導，美國空軍證實，一架隸屬空軍國民兵（Air National Guard）的飛機在喬治亞州墜毀。