View Full Version : Military vid of US blowing up C130 in Baghdad, June 2008
VinRouge
12th Jul 2008, 06:11
Not seen this on here yet, apparently it made an emergency landing, the yanks subsequently had to blow it up...
Military Videos: Videos, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Marines - Military Times (http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/071108c130/)
good skills to the crew that put it down.
Anyone got any info on the mech failure they suffered? Must have been pretty serious.
On_The_Top_Bunk
12th Jul 2008, 07:46
Anyone got any info on the mech failure they suffered? Must have been pretty serious.
I hear 4 Engine flame out drills are getting practiced a lot recently. :ooh:
The Americans are getting very open about what they publish.
flipster
12th Jul 2008, 10:46
OTTB
This appears to be a multiple flame-out/failure but your reply sounds a bit cryptic - do you know something we don't and can you share it with us?
It does not sound like a security/defence prob - only a maint prob?
herkman
13th Jul 2008, 07:52
We heard down here that it was a four engine roll back.
Photos indicate lots of damage, but anything worth while was removed before the aircraft was destroyed.
Regards
Col
Saintsman
13th Jul 2008, 13:45
Why destroy it? Its not as if the Baddies are going to fix it and use it themselves.
Or do they think that it'll get stripped of parts that'll end up on e-bay?
Two's in
13th Jul 2008, 14:09
Its not as if the Baddies are going to fix it and use it themselves.
Not fix it, but it (or parts of it) would otherwise be appearing in AQ propaganda videos from here to Christendom every time they claim to have shot something down.
barnstormer1968
13th Jul 2008, 18:49
Not fix it, but it (or parts of it) would otherwise be appearing in AQ propaganda videos from here to Christendom every time they claim to have shot something down.
How very naive of you Two's in!. I think it's much more likely it was done by the U.S. to stop parts appearing in the hands of a "military expert" on British sky news every time time any allied aircraft comes down, and being described as parts from a four engined C130 Nimrod army helicopter based in RAF Scotland:}
Barnstormer1968
johno617tonka
13th Jul 2008, 23:58
quite a few interesting video's on that site.....
none more so than this...
Soldier stabbed in the brain survives - Military Times Video (http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/powers/)
and read about the full story here....
Troops unite to save soldier knifed in head - Air Force News, news from Iraq - Air Force Times (http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_powers_071022/)
paracetamol anyone??
Online ACM
15th Jul 2008, 12:46
What a waste of some perfectly good wings, if just they'ed told us.