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| Air Drop from a C-130 (File Photo) |
MANILA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- A Philippine air force paratrooper died on Thursday during a parachute training jump with U.S. troops in northern Philippines, military officials said.
Parachuting from a C130 plane, the soldier was supposed to land at an airport drop zone, but a wind gust blew him to the nearby sea, Philippine army spokesman Captain Celeste Frank Sayson said, calling it a "freak accident."
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