Posted on 11/12/2025 5:21:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Or a muslim sense of maintenance …
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There is one? Who knew.
It’s the wings of a C-130.
Those poor crew members.......
They knew they were toast when that plane landed.
Hopefully, they made their peace with God during that time.
The E model has had wing problems.
——major error-——
A much higher probability would be sabotage
I guess it was the tail that separated, not the cockpit.
Indeed. The Hercules has one of the most resiliant airframes aloft. Not like an A-10...but a tough bird.
I hope they did too, or they face a dark and lonely grave.
It happens. A US MCKC 130 Torres self apart somewhere over the south United States a couple of years ago. A firefighting model shed its wings, there have been other accidents. But yes. They do tear themselves apart. Usually maintenance is the culprit. And this is an e-model, they are currently on the J model I believe. This was not a new one.
See post #14. It appears everything in front of the wings plus the tail section with part of the fuselage fell off.
It also has a link to a similar incident with a USMC C-130 from 2017.
“If Allah desires the airplane to fly, it will fly.”
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-sad-story-of-tanker-130-the-c-130-whose-wings-fall-off-during-the-2002-fire-season/
Aloha wills it.
That’s the one. Here’s another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States_Marine_Corps_KC-130_crash
More likely the case. Look at Iran, they’re out of water and don’t have the intelligence to build desalination plants.
Iran could buy desalination technology … from Israel.
That Marine Corps KC-130 crash was due to a separated propeller blade that threw the engine out of balance. The propeller and gear reduction unit tore out and cut through the fuselage, separating the forward part of the aircraft. The wings remained attached to the rear portion.
The C130 ranks as one of the most reliable aircraft ever made. How could it just break apart? Poor maintenance not detecting cracks or other structural issues? How about help from the inside where a crew member was in a hurry to get his 72 virgins?
“As God is my witness, I thought Turks could fly.”
Arthur Carlson, WKRP
Maybe the Iranians would be fearful of poisonous chemicals released in the water being sucked into the desalination plant.
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