Steve
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Anyone know the story behind this?
Part of our tail is missing...
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Teller1900
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Holy crap. No, but he's lucky he kept what bit of his elevator is there! Assuming it still moves.
I can imagine the conversation with the AC when he got back on the plane, "Uhhh, hey boss, I need you to take a look at something. No seriously, now!"
I can imagine the conversation with the AC when he got back on the plane, "Uhhh, hey boss, I need you to take a look at something. No seriously, now!"
KSCessnaDriver
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Looks like it happened in Afghanistan. Polish C-130E, seems they had an instrumentation problem.
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...land-grounds-hercules-fleet-after-afghan.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/article...land-grounds-hercules-fleet-after-afghan.html
Geico266
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Aluminum eating termites?
"Sources say aircraft "1506" suffered structural damage after its crew performed a 4g manoeuvre to avoid a collision with a mountain and struck tree tops. The incident is believed to have followed false indications from flight instruments, they claim."
Yikes.
Yikes.
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Maybe he had tried slipping with full flaps 
RMCN172RG
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Nope, that's supposed to blank out not eat the elevator.Maybe he had tried slipping with full flaps
Keith Lane
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But......
Did he file a flight plan?
Did he file a flight plan?
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Maybe he heard a child on a ATC frequency and the tail just shattered as a result!
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The treadmill snapped.
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I know.. they forgot to say ATITAPA.
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You maybe you were flying it!!!
You have a habit of having parts of wings fall off in flight!!!
rottydaddy
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You maybe you were flying it!!!
You have a habit of having parts of wings fall off in flight!!!
That's nothing, compared to losing most of the elevator... that must have been a very quiet ride home, and a most interesting approach and landing.
wanttaja
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Oh, I don't know. May not have made any difference...good pilots never miss a piece of tail.
That's nothing, compared to losing most of the elevator... that must have been a very quiet ride home, and a most interesting approach and landing.
Ron Wanttaja
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Steve
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Some more pics
Seems it made a hard landing, too, after flying through trees.
Seems it made a hard landing, too, after flying through trees.
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JEEBUS!
Those Herky birds can sure take a beating though!
Those Herky birds can sure take a beating though!
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That'll buff right out...
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Good one!
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There was a book back in the 1960s called "The Long Arm of America" that was all about the C-130. Martin Caidin may have written it. I remember reading it in high school. Old enough book that the C-141 was still coming at the time it was written. Loaded with stories of stuff that happened to C-130s that made it look like a super plane. Had a piece of road equipment (bulldozer?) get loose and go out through the side over the main gear. Plane landed safely. Stuff like that. Heck of an airplane.