Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash, Dec 29, 2004, Qayyarah Air...
Lockheed C-130 Hercules accident on December 29, 2004 near Qayyarah Airfield West AFB, Nīnawā (Nineveh), Iraq with no fatalities. Cause: Failure to...
- Date: December 29, 2004
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Location: Qayyarah Airfield West AFB, Nīnawā (Nineveh), Iraq
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Failure to disseminate NOTAM information in a timely manner, failure to mark the construction work, and weak NOTAM oversight, with contributing lack of combat-zone airfield training and garrison command responsibility.
A USAF MC-130H on a night logistics mission landed at a US-operated airfield in northern Iraq. Construction work in the runway had been neither marked nor published in a NOTAM, and the aircraft struck it at about 80 knots. The nose gear collapsed, the left wing separated and the aircraft caught fire, though the crew escaped.