Date:	Friday 14 April 2006
Time:	14:45
Type:	Lockheed C-130H Hercules
Owner/operator:	Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Registration:	9T-TCB
MSN:	4416
Year of manufacture:	1971
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH) -   Congo (Democratic Republic)
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH/FZAA)
Destination airport:	Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH/FZAA)

Narrative:
The Hercules had been parked at Kinshasa for several years and was being used for some trial flights. Reportedly the left main landing gear either did not extend or collapsed on landing.

Congo-Kinshasa: Crash d'un Hercule C- 130 des Fardc à l'aéroport de N'Djili (Le Potentiel, 18-4-2006)

photo (c) Cobus de Beer; Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH); 01 April 2013

photo (c) Cobus de Beer; Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH); 01 April 2013

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Milano-Malpensa Airport (MXP/LIMC); December 1980

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