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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]
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.
The 1996 Belgian Air Force Hercules accident is an aviation accident that occurred on 15 July 1996 at Eindhoven Airport, the Netherlands. [1] The disaster involved a Belgian Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft and resulted in the death of 34 passengers.
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 ...
On 10 July 2017, a Lockheed KC-130T Hercules aircraft belonging to the United States Marine Corps (USMC) crashed in Leflore County, Mississippi, killing all 16 people on board. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The aircraft had the call sign "Yanky 72" and was from Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452 (VMGR-452) based at Stewart Air National Guard ...
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.
In 2002, two large airtankers – a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer – crashed about a month apart while performing aerial firefighting operations. These crashes prompted a review of the maintenance and use of the entire U.S. large airtanker fleet.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft ... The crash was attributed to disengagement of the rudder fly-by-wire ...