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KC-130 Crash in Mississippi 16 Dead

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A KC-130, a refueling tanker, crashed into a rural field in the Mississippi Delta. The reason for the mishap is unknown. 15 Marines dead along with 1 Navy Corpsman.

 

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Looking at the vegetation around it, it looks like is just crashed straight into the ground. As in I can't see where they did a wheels up landing.

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I had the pleasure to jump from a VMGR-252 KC-130 about a year ago, great guys. Godspeed Leathernecks :salute:

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  It sounds like structural failure in flight leading to an attempted landing that didn't make it. 

Very sad and hits home to me. I lost four friends/shipmates in three crashes that were structural failures in flight of old aircraft still in service.

 

R.I.P., shipmates.

 

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