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The AC-130 also holds the record for the longest sustained flight by a C-130. From 22 to 24 October 1997, two AC-130U gunships flew 36 hours nonstop from Hurlburt Field, Florida to Daegu International Airport, South Korea, being refueled seven times by KC-135 tanker aircraft. This record flight beat the previous record longest flight by over 10 ...
April 10, 1970: C-130A 56-0510, c/n 3118, of E Flight, 21st Tactical Airlift Squadron, crashed into mountain on approach to Long Tieng, Laos, flown by Air America crew, nine killed. April 10, 1970 : C-130A 56-0516 , c/n 3124, of the 317th Tactical Airlift Wing, ditched, broke up in the Pacific Ocean off Okinawa – bleed air problem, lost two ...
On 23 May 1969, a Lockheed C-130 Hercules was stolen from RAF Mildenhall by a United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft mechanic who ultimately crashed it into the English Channel. Though some parts of the plane washed up on the Channel Islands within days of the crash, the larger wreck remained undiscovered until November 2018, nearly 50 years ...
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]
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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.
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A-1324 (serial number - 4927, model L-82), was delivered from the 32nd Transport Squadron in June 1982. [2] The military flight was from Jakarta to Bandung, [3] and mainly consisted of Paskhas, (also called Orange Berets), returning to base after participating in an Indonesian Armed Forces Day ceremony.