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KCOS: C-130 lands safely after losing instrument panel
An Air Force C-130 cargo plane developed instrument panel problems, declared an emergency shortly after takeoff and landed safely at 12:38 p.m. Monday at the Colorado Springs Airport. (www.p3air.com) Altro...
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As it appears, the P-panel slid out and nobody knew how to push it back in and secure the screws, the emergency would be that the connectors came off the back....hmmm.
Wow....now you need to carry a wrench when you fly too?
Terrible Just Terrible.
Good thing for ATC or they probably wouldn't have made. They seem to know how to fly everything in every situation!
I was in the air listening to them, initally they didnt want to declare an emergency. There were planing on flying formation back with another c-130 but that plan was short lived. There was not a cloud in the sky, I thought they were just gonna bust a u-turn but they requested an "Full-on" emergency with priority handling. Who knows what else might have been going on up there.
No telling what else was wrong... instrument panel and landing gear issue? [or was the landing gear a result of the instrument panel?... non-pilot asking a question. :) ]
