C-130 Mishap Photos



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    Airmen forward deployed from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing assist in a crash damage reclamation and demilitarization project of C-130J 04-3144 on July 1, 2013, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. The team recovered 250 components totalling more than $20 million. [USAF photo]
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    Airmen forward deployed from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing assist in a crash damage reclamation and demilitarization project of C-130J 04-3144 on July 3, 2013, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. The team recovered 250 components totalling more than $20 million. [USAF photo]
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    USAF C-130A 56-0548 wreckage which crashed on May 12, 1968 at Kham Duc, Vietnam and photographed in August 1970. Also C-130B 60-0297 also crashed that day not far from the base with great loss of life. Note the Skyraider in the background with the TT tail code. [Photo by Chris Jensen]
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    USAF C-130A 56-0548 wreckage which crashed on May 12, 1968 at Kham Duc, Vietnam and photographed in August 1970. Also C-130B 60-0297 also crashed that day not far from the base with great loss of life. [Photo by Chris Jensen]
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    USAF ANG C-130H #93-1458, MAFFS-7 which crashed on July 1, 2012 in southwest South Dakota fighting a fire. Four of the six crew killed. The two loadmasters at the back of the aircraft survived. [USAF photo]
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    Crash site for USAF C-130H #93-1458 MAFFS-7 of the North Carolina ANG seen on July 1, 2012. [USAF photo]
  • C-130K
    Wreckage of RAF C-130K XV-193 (c/n 4213) which had crashed at Glen Tilt, Scotland on May 27, 1993. [RAF photo, Crown copyright]
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    Underside of CC-130E #130344 showing damage after a tail strike during a daylight landing on a transport mission to Kandahar on July 28, 2008. [RCAF photo]
  • cc130311
    RCAF CC-130E #130311 landed long on April 25, 2006 at Alert, Nunavut. After touchdown the aircraft was unable to stop and departed the end, coming to rest in two-foot deep snow. There were no injuries. The aircraft sustained minor damage and was easily repaired. [RCAF photo]
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    FAT C-130H #TT-PAF crashed on June 11th, 2006. The aircraft overshot the runway, crashed and bursted into flames. The accident occurred at 18:30, about 30 minutes after the airport closed to trafic. [C-130.net collection]
  • TT-PAB
    FAT C-130A #TT-PAB photographed laying on its belly after stalling on take off on March 7th, 1986. [C-130-hercules.net photo]
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    U.S. Soldiers and civilian firefighters walk around an unserviceable C-130J #04-3144, July 9, 2013, at Forward Operating Base Shank, eastern Afghanistan, to extinguish any small fires and render the area safe after a controlled detonation was used to remove the wings of the aircraft. [US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Elvis Umanzor]
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    Damaged C-130J #04-3144 is prepared for a controlled explosive detonation, in July 2013, at Forward Operating Base Shank, eastern Afghanistan. Explosives were used to remove the wings of an unserviceable C-130 Hercules aircraft, in order to move the aircraft off the airfield. [US Army photo by Sgt. Bob Yarbrough]
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    A U.S. Army Soldier, attached to Task Force Vanguard, waits for fire fighters to arrive after an explosion from a controlled explosives detonation, July 9, 2013, at Forward Operating Base Shank, eastern Afghanistan. Explosives were used to remove the wings of this unserviceable C-130J #04-3144, in order to move the aircraft off the airfield. [US Army photo by Sgt. Bob Yarbrough]
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    Wreckage of a Canadian CC-130 #130318 lies on the runway at Fort Wainwright. The aircraft crashed on the airfield, killing nine of the 18 Canadian soldiers on board. [Photo via US Army]