Chilean AF C-130 disappears

[Le Addeur noir]

FACh C-130 with 30 POB crashed?,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-50723907

[wamovements]

Serial 990

[RobertMB]

Ill fated serial 990 is ex US Navy 160628 as a KC-130R. Is (was) it still a KC-130R when serving the Chile Air Force or a C-130H as mentioned in many sources? Photo's showing Hercules 990 with and without the tanker equipment(tanks) at the outer wing pylons?

[Le Addeur noir]

Ill fated serial 990 is ex US Navy 160628 as a KC-130R. Is (was) it still a KC-130R when serving the Chile Air Force or a C-130H as mentioned in many sources? Photo's showing Hercules 990 with and without the tanker equipment(tanks) at the outer wing pylons?

To be precise, 160628 is ex USMC VMGR-252 from the late 1970s and 1980s.

[Stratofreighter]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50752686

Chile missing plane: Human remains found, governor says

27 minutes ago

Rescue workers in Chile have found human remains
after an air force plane with 38 people on board went missing on Monday,
a regional governor said.

Magallanes Governor José Fernández said relatives of those missing had been informed of the find.

Earlier, Chile's air force said that wreckage had been found floating in the area
where the C-130 Hercules cargo plane had last made contact.

Governor Fernández did not give many details.
He said that "we received information today from the air force,
telling us that they'd found some wreckage from the plane
as well as remains of people who were on board".

The governor said a wheel from the plane,
part of the landing gear and the fuselage had been recovered,
and that more pieces were floating in the sea.

Earlier, Air Force Commander Eduardo Mosqueira told reporters that search teams had located debris
that "could be part of the remains of the sponges of the internal fuel tanks".

The wreckage was located 30km from the plane's last-known position.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50752686