After C-130 plane accident, Duterte needs enormous subsidizing, benefits for AFP

Antipolo Magazine 2020 

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

It was the most exceedingly terrible air calamity in Philippine military history. 

Somewhere around 49 armed force enrolled men, straight from a preparation school and appointed to their first battle obligation in Sulu, kicked the bucket when their C-130 Hercules military vehicle plane failed spectacularly before it could land at the Jolo Airport.

For the majority of these officers, it was probable their first an ideal opportunity to be on a four-motor super prop C-130H, the workhorse of the Philippine Air Force. Somewhere around 47 of them endure the accident.

This is the third time that a Lockheed C-130 aircraft has crashed since the 1990s, when the Philippine Air Force started using the plane for logistics run, rapid troop deployment, and  humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations.

When a C-130 crashed in August 1993 in Camarines Sur, it was carrying relief goods for typhoon victims. Thirty people died in the accident.

In 2008, a total of 11 people died when another C-130 went down minutes after it took off from an airport in Davao City.

Military pilots say the C-130 airplane is one of the most secure military planes since it has the capacity to coast and won't drop from the sky.

 

The airplane is reasonable to land in any runway, even in a short and unpaved runway, like the 1.2-km at Pagasa Island in the Spratly Islands. On account of the Jolo Airport, this was extended over 10 years prior – with assistance from the United States – from around 2,000 meters to 3.8 km.

There were theories that the C-130 had overshot the runway and was endeavoring to pull up for another endeavor to land when it ran out of force. Others were saying the airplane's brakes and converse track didn't work after it landed on the runway.

The Philippine Air Force will inspect all accessible information from the plane's blackbox to decide whether the accident was brought about by mechanical deformities or human mistake.

In any case, the two pilots ready, both with positions of major, were exceptionally capable pilots with likely many flying hours in a C130 plane.

 

Military representative Major General Edgard Arevalo engaged general society to abstain from hypothesizing on what occurred. "This intensifies instead of helps in the current circumstance," he told a news gathering on Monday, July 5, a day after the accident. "General society can be guaranteed the military will be straightforward in the lead of the examination. Now, we need to hang tight for the consequence of the examination.

The Philippines has just five C-130 airplane. Just two are flying and three are going through preventive upkeep. (Peruse: Sulu crash leaves AFP without C-130s)

A fresh out of the box new C-130 airplane costs more than $150 million, however the plane that slammed was procured for this present year by the Philippines from the United States for about P1.54 billion or generally $32 million. 

The cash went to aeronautics, other gear, and instruments that were taken out by the United States when it moved the airplane to the Philippines under a Foreign Military Financing award. The plane was given for nothing under a hot exchange program, which means the airplane was all the while being utilized by the United States.

 

Sunday's air mishap has uncovered the flying corps' inconsistent wellbeing record. 

Simply a month prior, a fresh out of the box new Polish Sikorsky Black Hawk battle utility helicopter smashed during a late evening preparing flight north of the capital, killing every one of the six individuals.