1982 United States Lockheed C-130 crash
United States Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
From Erzurum International Airport (ERZ) to İncirlik Air Base (UAB)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 27 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Aircraft type
- Lockheed C-130
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 27
- Route
- From Erzurum International Airport (ERZ)To İncirlik Air Base (UAB)
Approximate · Estimated position: Refahiye, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 13 April 1982, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules belonging to the United States Air Force crashed near Kızıldağ, in the Refahiye district, during a supply flight from Erzurum Airport to İncirlik Air Base. All 27 people on board, 9 of them crew, were killed.
Flight and crash
On 13 April 1982 the aircraft and crew took off from İncirlik Air Base to carry out routine supply flights. The aircraft stopped at Sinop Airport and flew on to Erzurum Airport. The aircraft, which took off from Erzurum Airport at 13.43 local time to return to İncirlik Air Base with a stop at Erzincan Airport, crashed into snowy terrain near Kızıldağ, in the Refahiye district, at 14.15 local time while on its way to Erzurum Airport. The investigation determined that engine number four had separated during the flight and struck engine number 3 and the fuel tank in the wing, causing a fire.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Turkish Wikipedia article “1982 Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Lockheed C-130 kazası” (revision 36480876, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Turkish Wikipedia article: 1982 Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Lockheed C-130 kazası
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 36480876 · 2025-12-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q121693530
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- tr Wikipedia article "1982 Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Lockheed C-130 kazası" (page 3579613, revision 36480876), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Turkish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.