Six American service members were killed early Friday when a U.S. C-130 transport plane crashed at an airport in Afghanistan, NBC News reported.
The crash happened shortly after midnight local time (3:19 p.m. ET) at Jalalabad airport, coalition spokesperson U.S. Army Col. Brian Tribus said.
Five civilian contractors and two local Afghan civilians were also killed, the military official said.
The cause of the crash hasn’t been determined. The official said there were no reports of hostile activity in the area.
