Accident
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 29 JAN 1989 |
| Type: | Lockheed CC-130E Hercules |
| Operator: | Canadian Armed Forces |
| Registration: | 130318 |
| C/n / msn: | 4124 |
| First flight: | 1966 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 8 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 18 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Fairbanks-Fort Wainwright Airport, AK (FBK) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Edmonton-CFB, AB (YED/CYED), Canada |
| Fairbanks-Fort Wainwright Airport, AK (FBK/PAFB), United States of America |
Crash-landed 300-600 feet short of the runway at night in -46deg C temperatures. The airplane was participating in the "Brim Frost" exercise.
Sources:
» The C-130 Hercules turns 50 / by Vic Johnson. In: Air Force (Vol. 28 No.4, Winter 2004/2005)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
