A lifelong buddy of mine has flown on that particular C130 many time
when he was on active duty. He said this plane was a MC-130H Combat
Talon II. He sent me the pictures of this last week in an email. He
said he had flown on that plane many time out of Hurlburt Field. He
said noone was killed but there were some injuries. He was trying to
find out if any of his military buddies were on board. Really hits
home when you are that close to it. Yikes. Kinda freaky ya know.






http://alexisparkinn.com/c-130_accident.htm

The pictures of this remarkable crash were forwarded to me by a fellow who
is apparently in Iraq, judging by his assessment of the situation. (I've
seen these pix posted in other places, but not with the details he
provided.)

The C-130 in question made a night landing on a closed -- but not NOTAM'd as
such -- runway. The results are obvious.

It's amazing -- the NOTAM system in Iraq doesn't seem to work any better
than the one in the U.S. Although -- unless we live in Chicago -- we
usually don't worry about runways being ripped up in the middle of the
night.

Mike Alexander
PP-ASEL
Temecula, CA