The Philippine army will send the black box of the C-130 transport to the US to the US expert to download and analyze the internal data.

General Cirilito Sobejana, Chairman of the Filipino Joint Stock Company, July 7 said the United States pledged to support extraction of information from the cockpit and flight data recording device, also known as a black box, to lighten

Mechanical transport C-130H carries a number of 5125 fell when carrying 96 soldiers to Jojo Island to prevent Muslim rebels here.

The accident caused 53 people to kill, including 50 soldiers on the plane and three civilians under the ground, 46 soldiers and some other wounded civilians.

Philippines soldiers on July 6 found the black box of the plane in distress, but General Sobejana admitted that this country could not extract data from this device.

Rescue workers and Philippines soldiers at the Falling School of C-130H falls on Jojo Island, Sulu Province on July 4.

When asked whether the cause of the accident was due to the bad weather or the pilot's fault, General Sobejana said he would wait for the investigators' reports.

US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin offered to support the Philippines army in the telephone with Delfin Lorenzana on July 6 to discuss the accident.

General Sobejana said 16 of the 53 victims were identified, but some bodies were burnt to a level that could not be identified.

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The C-130H was in distress with the US military in 1988, then transferred to the Philippine Air Force in January to enhance the country's heavy transport capacity.

Major General Edgard Arevalo, the Philippine military spokesman, said the C-130H was in a very good condition, no new and about 11,000 hours of flying before the next maintenance.

The Philippines army has suspended to fly another C-130 transport in the payroll, until the investigation is completed.