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C-130 Accidents & Mishaps for the United States Air Force

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Found 211 aircraft, displaying 31- 45 [Sorted by Date]
Date Status Local S/N Aircraft AF/Unit Version Info Details
23 Dec 1972 [ act] 56-509 56- 0509 AC-130A Details
Damaged at An Loc, South Vietnam and was quickly repaired. This demonstrated the durability of the C-130 after surviving hits in five places by 37 mm anti-aircraft artillery on 12 December 1970, extensive left wing leading edge damage on 12 April 1971 and a 57 mm round damaging the belly and injuring one crewman on 4 March 1972.
10 Apr 1970 [ w/o] 56-510 56- 0510 USAF 21 TAS C-130A Details
Crash into mountain on approach to Long Tieng, Laos while being flown by Air America crew.
12 Dec 1965 [ w/o] 56-515 56- 0515 USAF 18 TCS C-130A Details
Crashed practicing an assault take-off from Bitburg AB, West Germany. An assault takeoff in the USAF was used if the runway available was less than critical field length. As a general rule USAF required a 3500 foot runway, but if needed and the crew was qualified it could go down to take off ground roll plus 500 feet. The pilot flew the aircraft into cloud and was either disoriented or just stalled from perhaps over rotated. The aircraft fell out of the cloud with all four engines running. They crashed onto the taxiway and had a reported 60 degrees nose low attitude when they came out of the clouds. They attempted to pull out but were way too late. Five crew and one passenger were killed.
10 Apr 1970 [ w/o] 56-516 56- 0516 USAF 317 TAW C-130A Details
Ditched, broke up in the Pacific Ocean off Okinawa - bleed air problem, lost two engines.
24 Aug 1992 [ w/o] 56-517 56- 0517 C-130A Details
Ground instructional aircraft destroyed in Hurricane Andrew at Homestead AFB.
19 Sep 1958 [ w/o] 56-526 56- 0526 USAF 314 TCW C-130A Details
Mid-air collision with French Super Mystere near Triel, France. Six crew in the C-130 were killed and one pilot in the Super Mystere died.
02 Sep 1958 [ w/o] 56-528 56- 0528 USAF 7406 SS C-130A-II Details
Was downed by four Soviet MiG-17's, 17 miles northwest of Yerevan, Armenia when the aircraft flew into Soviet airspace. All 17 crew were killed in this first C-130 write-off. Aircraft had less than 200 hours on it when it was lost.
24 Nov 1969 [ w/o] 56-533 56- 0533 USAF 21 TAS C-130A Details
Shot down at Ban Salou, Laos, during Blind Bat flare mission. All 8 on board were killed. Crew was part of 41 TAS.
Apr 1973 [ act] 56-538 56- 0538 USAF 109 TAS C-130A Details
Damaged in a forced landing at Minneapolis but was easily repaired.
17 May 1962 [ w/o] 56-546 56- 0546 USAF 40 TCS C-130A Details
Flew into a mountain peak in bad weather near Nairobi, Kenya when the aircraft dipped below the assigned altitude. The C-130 was carrying support personnel and equipment for a recovery team for Aurora 7, the Mercury-Atlas 7 flight which was on May 24, 1962. This spacecraft was the second American manned orbital flight. All 13 onboard died comprising 6 crew and 7 passengers.
12 May 1968 [ w/o] 56-548 56- 0548 USAF 21 TAS C-130A Details
Crash landed on runway after being damaged by small arms fire at Kham Duc, South Vietnam.
02 Mar 1968 [ w/o] 56-549 56- 0549 USAF 21 TAS C-130A Details
Crash during night landing at Phu Bai AB, South Vietnam.
26 Jul 1975 [ w/o] 57-454 57- 0454 USAF 63 TAS C-130A Details
Crashed when lost blade from number three propeller, hit number four engine north of Imlay City, Michigan. Also reported to be 303rd TAS. Six on board were killed.
12 Oct 1967 [ w/o] 57-467 57- 0467 USAF 21 TAS C-130A Details
Hit bulldozer on take-off from Dak To, South Vietnam - landed at Cam Ranh Bay AB, Vietnam, written off. Tail of this aircraft was used to fix AC-130 69-6573.
20 May 1959 [ w/o] 57-468 57- 0468 USAF 815 TCS C-130A Details
Lost control on landing after an engine failure and crashed into barracks at Ashiya AB, Japan killing one crew in the aircraft and nine military ground personnel.

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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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