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  1. Michiel

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    #1 Michiel, Apr 29, 2010
  2. MarkPDX

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    #2 MarkPDX, Apr 29, 2010
    The mountains in Afghanistan can be an unforgiving place even if you leave out all the crazy Taliban guys.
     
  3. tazandjan

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    #3 tazandjan, Apr 30, 2010
    Fly an aircraft into trees and then blame the airplane. Oh, well. Lucky they just hit the trees. I can think of no instruments in a C-130E that would cause you to try and collect tree parts on the bottom of the aircraft. Radar altimeter? Useless in mountainous terrain unless you have a TFR system, and C-130Es did not.

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  4. Kds

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    #4 Kds, Apr 30, 2010
    2 aircraft equals a "fleet" ??
     
  5. solofast

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    #5 solofast, May 1, 2010
    Amazing that they still had decent elevator control with that much of it gone...

    Very lucky
     
  6. zygomatic

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    #6 zygomatic, May 1, 2010
    Not only 2 aircraft, but 2 aircraft on loan!
     
  7. Rifledriver

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    #7 Rifledriver, May 1, 2010
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  8. Kds

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    I wonder if the Polish government's credit card has a CDW clause for rental aircraft......LOL !!!
     
  9. tazandjan

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    #9 tazandjan, May 1, 2010
    I think those were our old workhorse USAFE C-130Es with about a million hours on them (a slight exaggeration). It scared me to death in the mid 90s when we had to certify them to carry nukes. No INS or GPS then. We finally replaced them.

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