Turkey on Wednesday said 20 of its soldiers were killed when its military transport plane suffered a crash in Georgia a day earlier, marking the NATO member’s deadliest military incident since 2020.

The C-130 cargo aircraft left Azerbaijan for Turkey and crashed in Georgia on Tuesday, leaving chunks of twisted metal strewn across a grassy knoll.

Ankara has not provided a reason for the plane crash , but said Turkey and Georgia ‘s authorities started inspections at the site, located in the Sighnaghi municipality of Georgia’s Kakheti district, at 0330 GMT on Wednesday.

Footage from the site near the border with Azerbaijan showed ambulances, firetrucks and army vehicles in the area around the burned fuselage, with search-and-rescue teams scanning the grounds.

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