This Landing Was the Pits: Image Gallery

Editorial Staff

Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

This article provides images related to the destruction of a C-130 aircraft.
The incident occurred when the C-130 landed at night on a runway that was undergoing unexpected construction, unknown to the crew.
The images, originally from a PowerPoint presentation, are shared here to address previous reader difficulties in viewing them.

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A number of readers were unable to view the images associated with thedestruction of a C-130 that touched down at night on a runway that was (unbeknownst to the crew) undergoing a facelift.

We’ve stripped the images out of theoriginal PowerPoint presentation and present them here for your benefit:

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