| Serial | 382-4473 | |||||||||||||||
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| Model | C-130H Hercules | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
| Comments | w/o 15.7.1996 chartered by the Royal Netherlands Air Force to fly their brass band from Italy back to the Netherlands. The a/c arrived at Verona-Villafranca AB at 13:33. Forty passengers boarded the plane and at 15:04 it took off from Villafranca AB for a short flight to Rimini, where it landed at 15:31. Three passengers deplaned at Rimini and the Hercules was back in the air at 15:55 heading for Eindhoven. The Hercules descended into Eindhoven and contacted Eindhoven Tower at 18:00. Eindhoven Tower cleared the flight for the approach. After reporting the runway in sight, the Hercules was cleared to land. Possibly as a result of the presence of a large number of birds near the runway, the co-pilot initiated a go around. Birds were ingested by both port engines (no.1 and no. 2), causing both engines to lose power. For reasons unknown the crew shut down engine no. 3 and feathered the propeller. The plane then turned left, stalled and crashed to the left of the runway and burst into flames (with 15 Wg); | |||||||||||||||
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