2015 Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash
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KC-130B Hercules (A-1310), the aircraft involved in the crash, seen at Soewondo Air Force Base, January 2005
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| Incident summary | |
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| Date | 30 June 2015 |
| Summary | Flameout on no. 4 engine, plane hit ground structure |
| Site | Medan, North Sumatra |
| Passengers | 109 |
| Crew | 12 |
| Fatalities | 143 (including 22 on the ground) |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | Unknown |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Lockheed C-130B Hercules |
| Operator | Indonesian Air Force |
| Registration | A-1310 |
| Flight origin | Soewondo Air Force Base – Medan |
| Destination | Raja Haji Fisabilillah Airport – Tanjung Pinang |
On 30 June 2015, a Lockheed KC-130B Hercules belonging to the Indonesian Air Force with 12 crew and 109 passengers on board, crashed near a residential neighborhood shortly after taking off from Medan, Indonesia, on route to Tanjung Pinang. All aboard were killed, along with 22 people on the ground.
At the time of the crash, the aircraft was transporting military personnel and their families, and possibly some paying civilian passengers (a practice that is in violation of government regulations but is often tolerated). The aircraft was scheduled to stay overnight in Pontianak Supadio Airport with a stopover in Tanjung Pinang after refueling in Medan.
Shortly after the crash, the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force grounded their entire C-130 fleet for inspection at Abdul Rachman Saleh Airport, from which the aircraft involved originated.
The plane took off at 12:08 p.m. (0508 GMT) from Soewondo Air Force Base, after refuelling and taking on passengers. It crashed near Djamin Ginting Road in Medan about two minutes later. The crash site was approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the base. According to Indonesian Chief of Staff of the Air Force Marshal Agus Supriana, before crashing, the pilot had requested permission to return to base.
According to eyewitnesses and Indonesian media, after the pilot indicated the aircraft would return to base, it drastically rolled to the right. An eyewitness reported that after the aircraft rolled, it then clipped a radio tower belonging to Joy FM, dove and then exploded. After it dove, multiple explosions were heard from as far as 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away. The aircraft became inverted, and the nose clipped the Golden Eleven Hotel. It then struck three other buildings, one of which was a crowded massage parlor, at a nearly perpendicular angle. It finally exploded in what onlookers described as "a hell-like scene", with bodies ejected onto the street.
It was the deadliest C-130 Hercules crash in Indonesian history, surpassing the 1991 Hercules crash in East Jakarta, the third-deadliest air disaster in the province of North Sumatra, after Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 and Mandala Airlines Flight 091, and the second air disaster in Indonesia within six months, after Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 in December 2014. The crash occurred only 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) away from the 2005 Mandala Airlines crash, in a residential area in Medan, and also occurred minutes after takeoff. Both happened on the Djamin Ginting Road.
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