C-130 Hercs are tough birds. They don’t lose wings willy nilly. Even completely overloaded and with large amounts of airframe time, it is odd.
An anti-aircraft missle will detach a wing pretty quickly, though. This will be an interesting investigation.
Godspeed to those who died and their families. R.I.P.
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Lockheed engineers should look at redesigning critical failure points on the wings and develop an inspection and maintenance schedule to address stress fractures and mechanical failures.
Hopefully it just the older C-130 models and of the later ones.
“British C130 (flying out of Afghanistan) Lost Its Wing, Crashed.”
Biden Response: They obviously failed to follow the proper procedures when bolting-in the wing.
I think that’s old news. He was saying he was on a flight before that one and he could have been in it and died.
Doubt it just happened. It would have created a fireball that would be seen for miles, and be all over the news.
I thought that the Brits used Hawker Siddeley Nimrods...
Any confirmation yet on this?