From today's brief by Commanding General of Forth Marine Air Wing, USMC Reserve:
Tail Number 165000 built in 1993 (so one of the newer ones - last of fleet delivered 1995).
Experienced an emergency at "cruise altitude".
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/u...ane-crash.html
From a former mechanic on type who is now a historian for the model:
"According to federal aviation records, the plane was damaged in 2004, when a wind storm tipped it sideways onto one wing, while it was on the ground in Fort Worth. In 2010, a storm piled so much snow on the plane that it tipped back, its nose in the air."
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Undoubtedly structural checks will have been carried out after those incidents - and it would have had the equivalent of a Major scheduled maintenance since - but I can't help thinking whether there were any abnormal forces applied to the structure during either.