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Re: Fire bomber Crash
Posted by Dan K on Mon Jun 17, 2002 09:45:16 PM
In reply top Fire bomber Crash posted by Brad on Mon Jun 17, 2002 08:52:39 PM
: Just saw on local news that a C-130 Fire Bomber went down
: in Northern California about an hour ago. Both wings fail
: ed upwards and seperated, the fuselage rolled to the left
: and impacted the ground(probably upside down), killing all
: three occupants. It was just coming off the end of a pas
: s. I heard some aviation "expert" on the news say it was
: obviously "metal fatigue due to the age of the aircraft, o
: r corrosion that had been allowed to go unchecked!" I hav
: e spent many glourious hours in the mighty Herk, it hurts
: to see them go down. That makes three this year, Counting
: the MC-130 that went down (killing two of my fellow loadm
: asters) in Afghanistan last week and the Marine KC-130 tha
: t went down in Pakistan a few months back.
It would appear that the crashed aircraft is Hawkins & Powers C-130, Number 130.
A terrible episode...my condolences to family and friends of the crew.
Fly safe everyone,
Dan