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  1. Military transport planes are designed to be flown low. Airdrops are usually under 1,000 feet.

  2. Originally posted by Risto:There is an alarm when you on dangerous altitudes, maybe that was plan of some kind of training though (or was there no training at the time?)

    The plane was going to Kiruna, to pick up Swedish troops for the exercise. They did try to make it "real" by giving the plane escort.

    Aaron: I'm sure they were quite aware of the fact that there was an almost 7000 feet mountain in the are they were flying in. I think it must've been some kind of technical error. There are reports that they didn't hold their safety margin of 1000 feet to the mountains though. But they definitely knew they were supposed to fly high.
  3. I'm going with human error on this one.

  4. Or the instruments boards were faulty. The numbers I mentioned are radar numbers that the Rescue Service has published. I'm thinking it could've just been human foolishness though, thinking it didn't matter if you flew a bit low.
  5. Accidents like that happen all the time up in Alaska.
  6. None of the pieces of wreckage they've found are bigger than an A4 paper.

  7. Damn.
  8. And... they now say that they've found body parts at the crash site.
  9. It looks like the mountain has been salted with pieces of wreckage, must've been a very forceful impact:



    They've stopped searching for survivors. And they say that the plane exploded at impact.
  10. Must have come in hard. How many men on board?

  11. "Luckily" only five. It would've been even worse if they had crashed on the way back, when they had picked up the troops they were going to transport.
  12. Must have been an older model, Current version of the 130 only has a 3 man crew.
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