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More than 15 percent of the approximately 2,350 Lockheed C-130 Hercules production hulls have been lost, including 70 by the US Air Force and the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Not all US C-130 losses have been crashes, 29 of those listed below were destroyed on the ground by enemy action or other non-flying accidents. [1] [2]
The aircraft was a former Lockheed C-130E Hercules that had been ordered by the Air Force in 1965 and later modified to WC-130H standard and was approaching fifty years of age. The aircraft's tail number/Air Force Serial Number was 65-0968 and the Lockheed serial number was 4110.
On 23 January 2020, a Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules, owned by Coulson Aviation, crashed while aerial firefighting for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service during Australia's black summer bushfires.
Debris was spread in a 5-mile (8 km) radius from the crash site and firefighters attending the crash site used 4,000 US gallons (3,300 imp gal; 15,000 L) of foam to extinguish the post-crash fire. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft on fire with a smoking engine and descending in a flat spin .
Hemet then sold the C-130 to Hawkins & Powers. [3] At the time of the crash, the aircraft had logged 21,863 flight hours. [3] The NTSB investigated the crash and determined that the accident was caused by a structural failure that occurred at the wing-to-fuselage attach point, with the right wing failing just before the left.
Video captured smoke rising from a military C-130 aircraft that reportedly crashed on Gulfstream Road in Savannah, Georgia, on May 2.Five people were reported to have been on board the plane, and ...
On July 4, 2021, a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) crashed after an attempted landing at Jolo Airport in Sulu, Philippines. [1] With 53 deaths, of which 50 people were on the aircraft and 3 on the ground, the incident is the deadliest aviation accident in Philippine military history, the fourth deadliest on Philippine soil, and the second deadliest to occur ...
1965 Hong Kong US Marines KC-130F Crash; 1969 theft of C-130; 1976 Venezuelan Air Force C-130 crash; 1981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash; 1991 Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash; 2015 Sumatra Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2016 Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash; 2017 United States Marine Corps KC ...