Plane Carrying Dutch Army Band Crashes

A Belgian Air Force plane bringing a Dutch army band back from a music festival crashed and burned during landing Monday, killing 32 passengers and crew members.

The U.S.-built Lockheed C-130 crashed on a strip at Eindhoven Airport, a regional airport about 120 miles south of Amsterdam.

Undersecretary of Defense Jan Gmelich Meijling said 32 of the 41 people aboard were killed. All nine survivors were hospitalized with serious burns.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but witnesses said the four-engine turboprop was clearly in trouble as it banked above a residential area before coming in for a landing.

On board were members of a Dutch military band returning from a music festival in Modena, Italy.