USAF Lockheed C-130 Crash

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This USAF Hercules C-130 crashed on July 1st, 1987 during a military exercise at Fort Bragg, narrowly missing spectators seconds before it crashed and burst into flames, killing four crewmen as well as a soldier on the ground. Two other crewmen were injured.
The plane was displaying a low level airdrop technique in which a parachute is used to pull a tank out the rear cargo door while the plane is a few feet above the ground, but the crew pulled up too late and hit the ground.

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  • I was one of the soldiers guarding the equipment at the far right end of the bleachers. It was like everything happened in slow motion, and then the plane hit the woodline and exploded. The heat was unreal. I was about 200 meters closer to the explosion than the cameraman, and as we all turned and started running away from the flames, I heard a woman scream out that her husband was on the plane. I'll never forget that day.

  • @Eaglestrke14 Wouldn't you?

  • @Razorfish probably because it was a tank... lol

  • ... but the cargo was in perfect shape.

  • that cameraman has slow ass reaction time

  • the plane like fucking bounced haha and then .... LADIES AND GENTLEMAN PLEASE STAY IN YOUR BLEACHRS. uhm no lets go run into a disentegrated plane XD haha

  • I worked on that plane less than two weeks earlier, did a wing bolt retorque on it. Trust me the wings didn't fall off the fuselage was destroyed which left nothing of what was left of the wings to attach to. I also was part of the crash recovery team that responded. Az long as it's been I'll never forged one second of it.

  • In this particular case, airplanes don't kill people, a bad pilot does. C-130s are not inherently disaster prone. Anyone who flew them as long as I did would know that. Props and bleed air were the only systems that needed extra caution during operation.

  • Do you know why both wings fell off?

  • C130 is a garbage yankee plane prone to disaster. like the one that had both its wings fall off.

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