The C-130 Hercules is like the ancient elephant of the modern Air Force — huge, strong and put to almost endless uses. In any case, the plane had barely cleared the runway at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport before something went catastrophically wrong. Near that same intersection, Mark Jones looked up and saw the C-130 curving low over the trees, toward the street. Jones looked down for a moment, he said, and by the time he looked back up, the plane was on the ground. “A C-130 literally just dropped out of the sky and blew up on the street,” he said as cross-street traffic passed in front of the dark smoke.

Source: Washington Post May 03, 2018 18:18 UTC