Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash, Aug 13, 2006 (3 killed), P...
Lockheed C-130 Hercules accident on August 13, 2006 near Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy with 3 fatalities. Cause: Sudden loss of control, probably...
- Date: August 13, 2006
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Location: Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Fatalities: 3
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Sudden loss of control, probably caused by a technical fault in the flight control system that the crew could not manage; the fragmentation of the wreck and limited flight data prevented certainty about the exact fault.
A Hercules cargo flight operated by Air Algerie from Algiers to Frankfurt was over northern Italy at 25,000 feet when the crew reported an autopilot failure. Within about a minute the aircraft entered a steep, high-speed dive with the overspeed alarm sounding and broke up on impact near Piacenza. All three crew members were killed.