ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325832
| Date: | Wednesday 27 February 1991 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | Kuwait Air Force |
| Registration: | KAF322 |
| MSN: | 4949 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | OT |
| Location: | Shayka Mayhar Air Base -
 Iraq
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
During Iraq's invasion of Kuwait City in 1990, KAF322 was captured and flown to Iraq. It received damage by a RAF Buccaneer during a coalition attack on Shayka Mayhar AB. It was cut-up and transported back to Kuwait at the end of the war and ended up being scrapped.
Sources:
C130 Hercules Headquarters
Images:
photo (c) Paul Sanders, via Werner Fischdick; Brussel-Zaventem Airport (BRU); April 1990
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