Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 20 DEC 1997 |
| Type: | Lockheed C-130H Hercules |
| Operator: | Elleniki Polemikí Aeroporía |
| Registration: | 750 |
| C/n / msn: | 4729 |
| First flight: | 1977 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Pastra Mountain (Greece)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Athens-Ellinikon International Airport (ATH/LGAT), Greece |
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Crashed while searching for the wreckage of a crashed Aerosweet Yak-42 plane that had gone missing near Thessaloniki in December 18.
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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.
