ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324233
| Date: | Tuesday 1 April 1997 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-130H Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 88-4408 |
| MSN: | 5161 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1989 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Tegucigalpa-Toncontin Airport (TGU) -
 Honduras
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Balboa-Howard AFB (HOW/MPHO) |
| Tegucigalpa-Toncontin Airport (TGU/MHTG) |
The aircraft landed long at 2,000 feet past the displaced threshold, with 50 percent flaps, leaving approximately 3,000 feet of runway remaining at a higher-than-normal landing speed; overran the runway. The Hercules hit a concrete drainage ditch, went through a fence, over a sheer 50-foot drop-off and came to rest on a civilian highway interchange where it caught fire.
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