https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjyGJO7Qm0
With zero radio transmissions indicating a problem or emergency, I suspect it suffered some kind of rapid catastrophic failure like the USMC KC-130 crash in 2017 and tore herself apart too rapidly for even a radio transmission.
The official video reconstruction above is from the accident investigation.
Thoughts?
wings iced, de-icing boot failure? Ice would build up and build up and build up and then, plop, it’d fall like a rock
In flight break-ups are almost unheard of. Your video might be the only one.
What usually gets them is outboard engine failure upon takeoff. And pilot error.
The one I remember most is an EC-130Q (from VQ-3) taking off from Wake Island, losing an outboard engine at low altitude, losing air speed and trying to ditch. That was circa 1979.
Crew two.
No survivors.
C-130s don’t float.
This claims the passenger list and flight path aren’t accurate:
A What’sApp audio message sent by a passenger stated that the plane was having electrical problems per this article:
https://news.yahoo.com/crashed-chile-plane-had-emergency-2016-air-force-142652357.html
Per this article the plane would have been halfway to the Antartica base when contact was lost:
https://www.stripes.com/news/chile-c-130-missing-with-38-passengers-on-way-to-antarctica-1.610549