Turkish c-130 crash

[seabod91]

Apparently happened within the last hour. Looks to have separated at the wing section. Can see the front section in the video but no tail section. Looks to be at altitude. Any thoughts what could cause this ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15280233/...

[normalbloke]

Wing box failure?

[snotrag]

Bloody hell - thats properly dissasembled itself mid air. Entire cantilever wing and wingbox completely seperated from its front, and rear fuselage sections. Terrifying!

[Tisy]

Was flight TUAF543 from flight plan. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/68-016... . Poor feeder coverage in that corner of Turkey hence why the tracking line ends abruptly, but from the ATC flight plan logs it disappeared at 1052Z just SE of Rustavi as it crossed the border into Georgia . It was already at cruising height of 24,000 ft and cruising speed.

Was out of UBBG (Ganja) to LTAP (Amasya Merzifon air base) and was due to do another flight this afternoon back to Ganja and then to Kayseri air base.

Old 1968 C-130E 68-01609.

[hidetheelephants]

It's a very old airframe, some kind of pressurisation meets fatigue failure event given the altitude?

[AlexIT]

In this video I seem to see a section of the C130 falling, on the left from the wing.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1988276104616923447

Horrible...

EDIT: It's the same video as in the OP Post, but not cropped.

[seabod91]

AlexIT said:

In this video I seem to see a section of the C130 falling, on the left from the wing.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1988276104616923447

Horrible...

EDIT: It's the same video as in the OP Post, but not cropped.

Yes same video. That is the front of the aircraft/ cockpit. I had seen the non cropped video on Reddit but used a daily mail link as didn’t know if people who don’t use Reddit could view. How they must have felt on the way down is hard to fathom.

[aeropilot]

20 persons on board it seems including crew.

If it broke apart at 24000ft, likely only those in the cockpit section will have been possibly conscious after the break apart and having the final minute or so of hell having to ride it down.

Grim.

[Tony1963]

Some think maybe a propeller let go and chopped the fuselage. Has happened before, USMC, 8 years ago.

[aeropilot]

Tony1963 said:

Some think maybe a propeller let go and chopped the fuselage. Has happened before, USMC, 8 years ago.

Yep, it does look like one of the inner props is missing in the video of the 'falling leaf' centre section.

[RobbyJ]

https://youtu.be/r3cfBlD9yiE?si=K4s4H2LEK7d7Ogia

Certainly seems to suspect that the #3 prop pierced the airframe resulting in catastrophic failure of the airframe.

[eldar]

Apparent failure of propellor, detached due corrosion, and struck fuselage with terminal damage.

https://youtu.be/r3cfBlD9yiE?si=XJhp73Z1aufFWWjk