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C-130 Accidents & Mishaps for the Royal Canadian Air Force

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Found 44 aircraft, displaying 31- 44 [Sorted by Date]
Date Status Local S/N Aircraft AF/Unit Version Info Details
12 Jan 1987 [ act] 130333 73- 1599 RCAF 435 TRS CC-130H AIB Report Details
13 Mar 2008 [ act] 130343 RCAF 8 W CC-130H-30 AIB Report Details
Tail strike causing Cat-C damaged at Kandahar airfield and easily repaired.
26 Apr 2008 [ act] 130343 RCAF 8 W CC-130H-30 AIB Report Details
Ground maintanence, rudder hinge jammed during removal of the vertical stabilizer causing damage to the rudder hinge support and rudder skin. Easily repaired.
12 Jul 2001 [ act] 130344 RCAF 8 W CC-130H-30 AIB Report Details
Cat-C mishap when the tail touched the ground during touch-and-goes at CFB Trenton, Ontario during a 426 Squadron training flight. Was easily repaired.
28 Jul 2008 [ act] 130344 RCAF 8 W CC-130H-30 Details
Cat-C mishap tail strike at Kandahar. Easily repaired.
Oct 2010 [ act] 130344 RCAF 8 W CC-130H-30 Details
Tail strike at Thunder Bay, Ontario and repaired quickly on site by a mobile team from Cascade Aerospace.
Unknown [ act] 130328 RCAF 436 TS CC-130E Details
Some time in 1983 jumped the chocks during an engine run up and ran into CC-130E 130320. This happened at CFB Trenton and both aircraft were able to be rebuilt as there was only minor damage. Investigation found the brakes were not funtional as auxiliary hydraulic systems had not been operating.
23 Feb 2012 [ w/o] 130342 RCAF 435 TRS CC-130H Details
Excessive chafing and arcing between an axillary hydraulic line and the power cable is what caused a fire that destroyed #130342 at NAS Key West in Florida in 2012. The crew escaped with just one minor injury and fire crews responded within three minutes, but the rear of the aircraft was so badly damaged that it was deemed too expensive to repair.
01 Jul 2012 [ act] 130617 RCAF 436 TS CC-130J-30 Details
Had a maintenance mishap which resulted in some minor damage.
18 Mar 2015 [ act] 130608 RCAF 436 TS CC-130J-30 Details
Suffered a classified as C category mishap while taxiing after landing at Resolute Bay airfield , Nunavut. Aircraft struck a light pole and then a storage shed. Brought to a stop an assessment was quickly made, but found that damage was done and already clear, so proceeded to parking spot. Damage was only to the outer two feet of the left wing and easily repaired.
18 Feb 1988 [ act] 130326 RCAF 436 TS CC-130E AIB Report Details
06 Oct 1977 [ msh] 130327 RCAF 436 TS CC-130E AIB Report Details
01 Feb 1993 [ act] 130327 RCAF 436 TS CC-130E AIB Report Details
Unknown [ act] 130338 RCAF 435 TRS CC-130H Details
Sometime in 2003, the aircraft had fuel transfer to the port wing and tip over to that side causing damage to the port wing tip while at Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Wing tip required repair and was back in service quickly.

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Abbreviations and symbols:
[act] Active [i/a] Instructional Airframe [sto] Stored (e.g. at AMARG)
[cld] Cancelled Order [msh] Involved in Mishap [w/o] Write-off
[con] Converted [o/o] On Order
[des] Destroyed (drone) [pre] Preserved (museum, gateguard) T/V LM Aero Type/Version (Construction) number
[emb] Embargoed [scr] Scrapped Photo Available
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Errors and Omissions

Nov 27, 2017 - 12:09 AM
More crashes of RCAF C130s

1964 C130B 10304 crashed in a field in Saskatchewan after the forward cargo door blew off at 29 thousand feet. All survived, aircraftvwritten off.

1967 C130E crashed in Trenton while on a training mission. Forgot tail number.

1977 or 78, C130 E 130312 crashed in northern Quebec while on a SAR mission. All killed except the co-pilot and the FE.


Mar 19, 2024 - 11:16 PM
1964 C130 crash

The aircraft had just left Rivers were it was being serviced. John Moore was the captain the door took out the two starboard engines ripped the top of the aircraft and took out number 3 and damaged number 4. How he did it is a Miri le but he landed the C130 in a mud field skidding to a stop Crazy good pilot





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