The black box has been recovered from a military plane crash in the Philippines by Military News

Data from C-130 transport planes that crashed on Jolo Island have been recovered after the runway was lost and 52 people were killed.

Philippine authorities have recovered a black box from an Air Force plane that crashed over the weekend and killed more than 50 people, military leader Cirilito Sobejana told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.

A pilot who was on a C-130 plane with several years of experience in the crash on Jolo Island was among those killed, Sobejana said by phone.

The military chief said the black box was recovered on Monday and investigators should allow him to listen to interviews with pilots and crew before the plane crashed.

“I spoke to the survivors and they said the plane bounced and zigzagged two or three times. The pilot tried to regain power because he wanted to lift the plane but it was too late. The right wing hit a tree,” he said.

Sobejana said no one jumped off the plane before it crashed. Earlier accounts of witnesses said that some passengers tried to jump to safety before the plane hit the ground.

He said the front of the plane was split and some soldiers took advantage of the opening to escape. But the unconscious could not get out and the plane exploded on fire.

Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft carrying troops heading to counterinsurgency operations in the southern Philippines fell 96 people aboard the ship.

The death toll reached 52 on Monday, including three civilians on the ground, after injuring two of the 49 soldiers injured in the crash, the Defense Ministry said.

Military spokesman Edgard Arevalo said the plane was in “very good condition” and had 11,000 hours left before the next maintenance work could be done.