Scratch one Talon II

[Typhoon1244]

A pilot could land as an earthquake was occuring, fall into a large crack on the runway, and it would still be due to pilot error since he failed to check siesmograph readings prior to departure.

Don't you?

Besides, I'd say landing in an earthquake showed poor judgement. He should've gone around...

 

[EagleRJ]

and I'll bet that the Combat Talons are just a little more expensive than a regular C-130! Ouch.

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

MC-130H Combat Talon II

no, what's the big blingin' piece on the nose cone?

in this pic below

http://www.proaviator.com/flightinfo/1.jpg

 

[414Flyer]

MC-130Hs are pretty rare, not very numerous at all. That plane has lots of nice toys, you can see just a few attached to the plane in various places.

Pretty expensive loss. This isnt your fathers C-130, as the saying goes.

 

[EagleRJ]

no, what's the big blingin' piece on the nose cone?

in this pic below

http://www.proaviator.com/flightinfo/1.jpg

One of the Combat Talon's missions is to fly in at low level at night to insert Special Forces. I'd guess that the dome is some sort of terrain-following radar, or maybe even that imaging radar that can display a real-world picture of what's in front of the airplane.

 

[HueyPilot]

It's a TF/TA radar...Terrain Following/Terrain Avoidance. Allows the crews to fly into "denied" areas around 100 feet AGL at night to deliver their "customers".

Unfortunately this one was lost doing regular trash hauling. What a mess.

 

[Cardinal]

Wasn't one of these lost in Afghanistan, as well? At Max power, max AoA, trying to climb out of a valley in the Hindu Kush, in IMC nonetheless, ended up parking it on a mountainside without loss of life.

 

[HueyPilot]

Yes you are correct....no one was killed....amazing. It's been a bad few years for the T2 community, however that's tempered with the fact that they've been doing alot of "real world" ops too.

They lost one in Puerto Rico on a training mission a couple years ago, with all aboard lost.

 

[Goose17]

It's a dangerous mission

"Unfortunately this one was lost doing regular trash hauling. What a mess."

This is not a "trash hauling" airframe. It is a demanding mission and it sucks this happened. Fortunately no one was killed.

Goose17