Any Speculation Here That The Military Plane That Crashed Was.....

[global1]

shot down?

All the reports that I've heard so far - say that this plane is a work horse. They can turn off an engine and still fly if one is problematic. They seem to be befuddled as to why this plane went down. Some eyewithnesses said they saw fire at the back of the plane before it crashed.

[The Blue Flower]

1. CNN said FBI on scene

So someone may be thinking sabotage.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Well, not until you brought it up...

All multi-engine planes are designed to be able to maintain flight if one engine fails. Flying is inherently dangerous because you are high in the air and depending on complex electromechanical systems to keep you there. I think I will let the NTSB do their due diligence before I go all InfoWars on the incident.

[librechik]

3. sigh.Of course I did. We seem to be at war, although few will admit it. Hope I'm wrong

merely a cargo fire in the rear of the plane. Seems more likely.

[Shell_Seas]

5. Who would shoot it down in Mississippi, though?

This didn't happen overseas.

[Lee-Lee]

4. Good grief, it's a few hours in to the investigation

Of course nobody has answers yet.

C-130's are a workhorse and they are pretty reliable. But that doesn't stop catastrophic failure from happening now and then- even the most rugged and reliable machines will fail now and then, even the best pilots make mistakes now and then, even the best maintainers screw up and cause a crash now and then.

Leaping right to a military aircraft shot down of US soil is absurd conspiracy mongering at this point.

[Nevernose]

6. One hard bird strike to the cockpit...

Weather, structural failure, suicidal pilot, fuel explosion, poor maintenance...the list of what can go wrong on an airplane is pretty long.

Shit just happens sometime, with no rhyme or reason, and good people die.

[Amishman]

10. Yup, planes are more fragile than we like to think

And the military puts hard hours on their equipment

[hack89]

7. Shot down by what? nt

[LanternWaste]

8. Ted Nugent?

"Shot down by what?"

Ted Nugent? As I've read unsupported allegations he's much more intelligent than other DUers, he may have figured out how to do it...

[Historic NY]

9. Mentioned early a major structural failure....ocurred

could be anything at this point, wings, spar, tail, etc. We have a tanker wing here in NY they are constantly up flying in them. They had one which was called the hard luck plane because of constant mechanical failures. It was sent to Texas to be rebuilt.

[hack89]

11. This plane appears to one of the oldest in the fleet

There are only 12 of this particular model still in use. I suspect age and hard use caught up to it.