Date |
Status |
Local S/N |
Aircraft |
AF/Unit |
Version |
Info |
Details |
15 Feb 1971 |
[
w/o] |
148318 |
59-
5922
|
USNavy VX-6 |
LC-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Hit snow wall causing wing to hit ground and break while taxiing at McMurdo, Antarctica.
|
|
15 Jan 1975 |
[
act] |
148319 |
59-
5923
|
USNavy VX-6 |
LC-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
JATO bottle broke loose during a take-off run at Dome Charlie Antarctica. Was repaired on site and flew out on December 25, 1976.
|
|
31 Dec 1993 |
[
act] |
148319 |
59-
5923
|
USNavy VXE-6 |
LC-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Damaged during take off at an Antarctica camp site. No one was injured in the mishap. Aircraft was relatively easy to repair.
|
|
04 Nov 1975 |
[
act] |
148320 |
59-
5924
|
USNavy VX-6 |
LC-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Crash at Dome Charlie, Antarctica. Aircraft was repaired on site and flown out on December 26, 1976.
|
|
Unknown |
[
act] |
148320 |
59-
5924
|
USNavy VXE-6 |
LC-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Nose ski was dipped down at the front during landing, caught the snow damaging the ski, nose gear, starboard ski and flap. Location of the mishap was Willy Field, Antartica and no injuries resulted with the aircraft returning to flying status shortly after. Date of loss is unknown, reportedly 1992 or 1993.
|
|
04 Dec 1971 |
[
act] |
148321 |
59-
5925
|
USNavy VX-6 |
LC-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Force landed at Care Four, Antarctica after two JATO bottle came off and struck the aircraft. The ten man crew were uninjured but had to live in survival shelters for 80 hours until the weather improve enough to allow a rescue. It had been buried in the snow for 17 years before repairs began.
|
|
17 Jun 1966 |
[
w/o] |
63-785 |
63-
7785
|
USNavy VR-8 |
C-130E
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Operated on loan from USAF by US Navy squadron VR-8; exploded over sea off Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam (serial number subsequently applied to C-130E 64-0507, c/n 3991, in 1972, which was assigned to another agency December 31, 1964, and flew Air America missions)
|
|
15 Jan 1975 |
[
act] |
159129 |
73-
0839
|
USNavy VXE-6 |
LC-130R
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Nose ski broke on a take-off run and went through the bottom of aircraft from Dome Charlie. Repaired on site and flown out.
|
|
09 Dec 1987 |
[
w/o] |
159131 |
73-
0841
|
USNavy VXE-6 |
LC-130R
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Crashed on landing while bringing in spares for LC-130F BuNo 148321 at Carrefour, Antarctica when it was damaged on February 1, 1971.
|
|
Dec 1984 |
[
act] |
160740 |
76-
0491
|
USNavy VXE-6 |
LC-130R
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Damaged at Starshot Glacier, Antartica. Was repaired.
|
|
29 Aug 1992 |
[
act] |
149793 |
|
USNavy VRC-50 |
C-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Was trapped by a partially collapsed hangar in the aftermath of Typhoon Omar which struck NAS Andersen, Guam.
|
|
27 Aug 1992 |
[
act] |
149794 |
|
USNavy VRC-50 |
C-130F
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Heavily damaged in Typhoon Omar at NAS Agana, Guam.
|
|
15 Jan 1972 |
[
w/o] |
151890 |
|
USNavy VQ-4 |
EC-130G
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Written off following damage from in-flight fire as a result of an electrical failure in a wing fuel tank. The fire was out by the time the aircraft crash landed in a farmers field, but the damage to the aircraft was enough that it couldn't be repaired.
|
|
21 Jun 1977 |
[
w/o] |
156176 |
|
USNavy VQ-3 |
EC-130Q
|
|
Details
|
|
|
TACAMOPAC Crew 4.crashed into the water on take-off at night from Wake Island. All 16 on board were killed.
|
|
28 Jan 1973 |
[
w/o] |
155917 |
|
USNavy VXE-6 |
LC-130R
|
|
Details
|
|
|
Crashed on landing in white-out conditions at South Pole Station, Antarctica.
|
|