A United States Air Force C-130J Hercules crash near Jalalabad

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A United States Air Force C-130J Hercules crash near Jalalabad
C-130 Hercules over Santa Cruz Island.jpg

Picture of a Lockheed C-130J, identical in construction to the crashed machine
Accident summary
Accident type System failure
place Near JalalabadAfghanistanAfghanistan 
date October 2nd, 2015
Fatalities 13 or 14 (2 or 3 on the floor)
Survivors 0
Injured 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Lockheed C- 130J Hercules
operator 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, United States Air Force
Mark 08-3174
Surname Torque 62
Departure airport AfghanistanAfghanistan Jalalabad
Destination airport AfghanistanAfghanistan Bagram
Passengers 6th
crew 5
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In the crash of a United States Air Force C-130J Hercules on October 1, 2015 near the Afghan city of Jalalabad , all eleven occupants on board were killed. The machine, which was on its way back to Bagram , crashed shortly after takeoff at around 12:19 a.m. local time (7:49 p.m. UTC ). It was the first accident involving the J version of the Hercules that killed people. In addition to the six-person crew, the inmates were five civilian workers who were deployed in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF follow-up mission, Resolute Support . The machine belonged to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in the 455th Air Expeditionary Wing , four soldiers came from the 39th Airlift Squadron of the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess Air Force Base , Texas, and two from the 66th Security Forces Squadron from Bedford, Massachusetts . In addition to the eleven inmates, two people were killed on the ground; according to other sources, three Afghans were killed on the ground.

The Taliban claim they shot down the plane; the United States denies it. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen an engine fail .

Cause of accident

In April 2016, the US Air Force stated that the cause of the accident was an improperly stowed box for the night vision goggles , which had blocked the control horn and thus the elevator . While the aircraft was being loaded, one of the pilots clamped the container in front of the control horn in such a way that the elevator at the rear of the aircraft could be raised to the maximum in order to make it easier to load the aircraft with high cargo through the tailgate. The crew did not notice this while reading the checklist and when taxiing to the runway , so they started with this blockage.

The aircraft went after the start on a pitch of 42 °, because the pilots were unable to reduce the angle of attack, and it came to the stall . The pilots mistakenly considered the behavior of the machine to be a malfunction of the trim and took the wrong measures to remedy the alleged cause, whereupon the machine hit the ground. The investigation found that wearing the glasses at take-off meant that the pilots could no longer see the container due to the low resolution of the glasses.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c C-130J crashes in Afghanistan. In: af.mil. United States Air Force, Oct. 2, 2015, archived from the original on Oct. 2, 2015 ; Retrieved October 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Aircraft accident data and report on the crash of a Lockheed C-130J Hercules near Jalalabad in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on October 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b TORQUE 62 Memorial to be held for Dyess Airmen. (No longer available online.) In: dyess.af.mi. United States Air Force - Dyess Air Force Base, Oct. 6, 2015, archived from the original on May 8, 2016 ; accessed on October 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Craig Hoyle: USAF crash marks sixth hull loss for C-130J. Flightglobal, October 2, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Eleven dead as US plane crashes at Afghanistan airport. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian, October 2, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Afghanistan: Several people die in US military aircraft crash. In: spiegel.de. Spiegel Online, October 2, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  7. ^ Airmen in C-130 crash identified, memorialized. In: af.mil. United States Air Force, October 3, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  8. ↑ US Military Plane Crashes in Afghanistan, Killing 14. In: nytimes.com. New York Times, October 1, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Sune Engel Rasmussen: US denies Taliban shot down cargo plane in Afghanistan. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian, October 2, 2015, accessed October 9, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Phil Helsel, Courtney Kube: Engine Failure, Impact Eyed After Deadly Afghanistan C-130 Crash. In: nbcnews.com. NBC News, October 12, 2015, accessed October 12, 2015 : “A US C-130 transport plane that crashed at Jalalabad airport in Afghanistan early Friday morning - killing 14 people - apparently suffered engine failure before the accident, a senior defense official said. "
  11. ↑ a b James Drew: How a pilot's NVG case brought down a USAF C-130J in Afghanistan. In: Flightglobal. April 19, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Air Force blames crash that killed 14 on goggles case cnn.com, updated April 19, 2016, accessed July 11, 2017.

Coordinates: 34 ° 24 ′ 36 ″  N , 70 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E