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Aviogenex Flight 130 was an international charter passenger flight from Gatwick Airport, London to Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). On 23 May 1971, the Tupolev Tu-134A servicing the flight suffered structural failure during landing.
Flight 130 may refer to: Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 130, crashed on 18 January 1971; Aviogenex Flight 130, crashed on 23 May 1971; Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130, hijacked 15–16 September 1972; Baikal Airlines Flight 130, crashed on 3 January 1994
Around 06:55 radar contact was lost with Meyer's aircraft and an hour and forty-five minutes after takeoff the C-130 crashed into the English Channel. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] A few days later small parts from the missing C-130, including a life raft, washed up near the Channel Island of Alderney .
Flight 901 after a runway overrun on 28 February 1984, with passengers evacuating. SAS has been subject to three hijackings—none of which have resulted in the loss of lives. Two were successful: Flight 130 in 1972 was captured by the Croatian National Resistance, while Flight 347 in 1994 was captured in the ruse of the Bosnian War.
October 5, 1991: C-130H-30 A-1324 of the Indonesian Air Force crashed after take-off 1991 Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash from Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia due to an engine fire. 133 on board of the aircraft as well as two people on the ground were killed, but one passenger on the aircraft survived.
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In September 2006, the British Channel 4 News aired an article criticising the Ministry of Defence for having fitted only one C-130 Hercules with a foam fire-suppressant system. The RAF had ordered a retrofit of this system to all front-line C130 aircraft, a system which could well have prevented the loss of aircraft XV179 and its crew.
Rick DeMorgan, the flight engineer, served in the US Air Force for 24 years and completed thirteen deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. [11] [17] DeMorgan, who joined Coulson Aviation in November 2019 and was flying his first fire season, had experience of 4,050 hours on the C-130 aircraft as a flight engineer. [16]