It was designed for tactical in-theater airlift and modifiable for various roles including Troop and equipment transport and Para drop search and rescue aero. All 158 people on board were killed including eight foreign nationals.
Nigerian Air Force And Its Crashing Planes By Reuben Abati
The number of fatalities in the crash of an Air Force C-130 plane in Patikul Sulu climbed to 45 with 53 other persons hurt and five still unaccounted for the Department of National Defense said.

C130 plane crash nigeria. Nigerias army chief 10 others killed in plane crash. At least 40 rescued after C130 plane crashes in Sulu. All five people on board were killed.
Military chief - Flipboard. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a versatile high wing turbo-prop military and civilian transport plane used by well over 60 countries. There was an atmosphere of joy and anticipation amongst the passengers when the last of the 158 passengers took his seat at the rear of the aircraft.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed now Lockheed MartinCapable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings the C-130 was originally designed as a troop medevac and cargo transport aircraftThe versatile airframe has found uses in a variety of other roles including as a gunship. On 15 March 2012 a C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force Norwegian. They included the best and the brightest of the countrys military minds.
The incident occurred as the plane was landing at Kaduna airport due to inclement weather the army says. AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT This is to confirm that a Nigerian Air Force NAF Beechcraft KingAir B350i aircraft crashed while returning to the Abuja. The National Guard plane which had been undergoing routine maintenance was headed to Tucson Arizona to be decommissioned Puerto Rico National Guard spokesman Maj.
C-130H 911 of the Nigerian Air Force crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos Nigeria three engines failed high take-off weight. It the day about over two hundred young Nigerian women who by fate married military personnel became widows most of them less than 30 years. DAILY POST reported earlier that Attahiru died in an air crash.
Of the fatalities 42 were from the military and three were civilians on. A video has emerged showing the moment the aircraft conveying the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Lt. The Crash of NAF 911 on September 26 1992.
Some 150 students of the Command and Staff College Jaji were involved in the saddest event in Military Aviation history in NigeriaThey were mostly Majors Squadron Leaders and Lt-Commanders. Even it did not mean anything to the government of the day but to the families of the victims of the Nigerian Airforce NAF C-130 plane crash of 26 September 1992 the day will remain evergreen. A military plane carrying at least 85 people crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday the armed forces chief has said.
Saturday September 26 1992 was a perfect. Oketunbi said the aircrafts flight data recorder FDR and the cockpit voice recorder CVR have been recovered for analysis. Onyxnews Nigeria quotes AFP reporting that about 15 persons have been rescued from the burning wreckage of the C-130 which crashed as it tried to land on.
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 SO1145OSL1145 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between the Nigerian cities of Abuja and Port Harcourt At about 1408 local time 1308 UTC on 10 December 2005 Flight 1145 from Abuja crash-landed at Port Harcourt International AirportThe plane a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with 110 people on board slammed into the ground and burst into flames. Luftforsvaret crashed into the western face of Mount Kebnekaise near Kiruna Sweden. A C-130 military cargo plane crashed Wednesday onto a Port Wentworth Georgia highway killing all nine people on board just minutes after taking off.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that the Chief of Army Staff Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru has died in a plane crash with some of his aides while on a trip to Kaduna. 140pm On Sep 29 2020. Another Military Plane C130 Crashes.
Saturday September 26 1992 was a perfect day for flying. The Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria AIB -N has been mandated by the Nigerian Air Force NAF. Swedish air traffic control had given the crew a clearance that placed them outside controlled airspace and below the altitude of the surrounding terrain a.
General Ibrahim Attahiru crashed. Nigerias army chief Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru died in a plane crash on Friday on an official visit to the northern state of Kaduna which has had security challenges in recent months. Paul Dahlen said at a news.
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