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Explosive End To RAF C130

Markyboy From United Kingdom (Scotland), joined Sep 2003, 192 posts, RR: 0
Posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 1908 times:

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Came across this interesting video of the destruction of a hercules.

What a way to go!

markyboy.

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EBJ1248650 From United States, joined Jun 2005, 1058 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1806 times:

That was a C-130J wasn't it? What's the story behind this?

GPHOTO From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 533 posts, RR: 13
Reply 2, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1786 times:

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This must be the destruction in Iraq of ZH876, an RAF C-130J. The aircraft was damaged but I don't know how and if I did know I probably would not be allowed to say! Smile

Note damage to port wing and damaged or missing engine. Aircraft was destroyed as too dangerous to recover and to prevent loss of sensitive equipment which could not be removed quickly. Looks like they did a pretty thorough job!

Best regards,

Jim

Erm, is this thing on?

Moose135 From United States, joined Oct 2004, 630 posts, RR: 7
Reply 3, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1783 times:

From what I remember, it was damaged beyond economical repair in a landing incident. Given it was out in the middle of the desert with lots of explosives around, the most efficient way to dispose of it was to blow it up.

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KC135TopBoom From United States, joined Jan 2005, 5533 posts, RR: 36
Reply 4, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1729 times:

The USAF recently had to do that to a C-130E in Iraq, too.

Spacepope From Vatican City State (Holy See), joined Dec 1999, 1705 posts, RR: 1
Reply 5, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1609 times:

Even worse Topboom, it was an -H, in the 86-XXXX serials. Crashed shortly after takeoff, and the military thought insurgents would use it as shelter/obstruction for firing on the base. Good pictoral in this month's AFM, they basically used charges to cut it into pieces, then trucked it away.

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MissedApproach From Canada, joined Oct 2004, 699 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (2 months 3 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1593 times:

Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 4):
The USAF recently had to do that to a C-130E in Iraq

Quoting Spacepope (Reply 5):
Good pictoral in this month's AFM

I think I got a powerpoint of that at work last week.

Can you hear me now?

DeltaGuy From United States, joined Sep 2001, 4095 posts, RR: 19
Reply 7, posted (2 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1437 times:

Wow, one hell of an explosion! I'm surprised they didn't strip it down, like they did with the AF C-130E. Was that a -J model?

DeltaGuy

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Spacepope From Vatican City State (Holy See), joined Dec 1999, 1705 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (2 months 3 weeks 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 1387 times:

Quoting DeltaGuy (Reply 7):
like they did with the AF C-130E.

OK was I just mistaken?

It was reported to be C-130H 86-0412

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They stripped down the airframe pretty well beforehand, probably because the Stryker teams were able to establish a perimiter. AFAIK the RAF loss was at a remote base, and there was no way to safely do that. Not that Lockheed is crying over it...

Much more impressive than just dropping a JDAM on the hulk like the UH-60 on July 2nd.

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