Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash, May 19, 2013, Shank AFB
Lockheed C-130 Hercules accident on May 19, 2013 near Shank AFB, Logar, Afghanistan with no fatalities. Cause: Landing about 27 knots faster than...
- Date: May 19, 2013
- Aircraft: Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Location: Shank AFB, Logar, Afghanistan
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Landing about 27 knots faster than computed touchdown speed at a high-altitude airfield, with poor crew resource management and a late power reduction.
A USAF C-130J on an aeromedical evacuation mission overran the end of the runway at Forward Operating Base Shank in Afghanistan on its second landing attempt. It struck a ditch, the nose gear collapsed and the right main gear tore off, and the right wing caught fire. All crew and patients evacuated through the flight deck hatch.