| Date: | Wednesday 9 December 1987 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed LC-130R Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 159131 |
| MSN: | 4522 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | D-59 Station -
 Antarctica
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| D-59 Station |
The ski-equipped LC-130R Hercules was owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by U.S. Navy pilots of the Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6). The LC-130 airplane was making a routine supply delivery to the field camp at a site called D-59 where a team was working to repair LC-130 148321 that had crashed in 1971. The airplane crashed about one mile from the camp as it attempted to land.
Sources:
Antarctic Journal (NSF), March, 1988
Location
Images:
photo (c) U.S. Navy; D-59 Station; December 1987; (publicdomain)
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