Serial	300-6199
Line Number
First Flight
Model	C-141B Starlifter
Status	Written-off
Comments	C-141A mod to C-141B; w/o 23.3.1994 while the aircraft was parked on the ramp at Pope AFB, NC. Army paratroopers were boarding the plane for an exercise air drop mission. At that moment F-16D 88-0171 entered the traffic pattern on finals for runway 23. The F-16 collided with C-130E 68-10942 at an altitude of 300 feet. The C-130 continued and landed safely. Both F-16 pilots ejected, but the a/c crashed onto the taxiway, skidded into the loading C-141 puncturing the fuel tanks in the right wing &, causing a massive fire. Of approximately 500 troops in the vicinity of the accident, 23 were killed and over 80 were injured (with 438 AW);
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