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A third LC-130 finally succeeded in rescuing all of the involved personnel. The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy made plans to recover the two downed aircraft during the next season. This involved replacement of the wing on the first aircraft and of the nose landing gear on the second aircraft.
May 19, 2013: C-130J Super Hercules, 04-3144 from the 41st Airlift Squadron, 19th Airlift Wing, Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, crashed during landing at Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan when it ran off the runway and struck a ditch, which collapsed the nose gear and ripped the right main landing gear from the fuselage. The #4 ...
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin).Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally designed as a troop, medevac, and cargo transport aircraft.
A Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Honduran Air Force crashed in a jungle area after a failed landing at Mocorón Airport, in the east of the country. All 52 people onboard were killed. [193] 2 September Schweizer RG-8A, 85-0048, c/n 4, ex-civil registration N3623C, modified Schweizer SGS 2-32 motor glider for U.S. Army Grisly Hunter ...
The Fulton system in use The Fulton system in use from below. The Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (STARS), also known as Skyhook, is a system used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States Air Force, and United States Navy for retrieving individuals on the ground using aircraft such as the MC-130E Combat Talon I and B-17 Flying Fortress.
The NTSB report stated that visual checks from the helicopter and control tower were pointless because the nose gear doors of the Aerostar partially close when the gear extends, obscuring most of the locking mechanism and making it "virtually impossible" to determine even from an "unsafe distance" whether the nose gear was locked.
A Delta Air Lines flight landed with its “nose landing gear up” at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina on Wednesday morning, the FAA says.
The LC-130 started as a prototype model developed by modifying a C-130A with skis in 1956. [2] After testing in 1957, 12 additional C-130A models were modified with skis and hydraulics under the designation of C-130D. [2] [3] In 1959 the first four factory equipped, ski-based Hercules were produced under the Navy designation of UV-1L. These C ...