C-130 Cargo Plane Hits RQ-7 Shadow in Afghanistan – New Photos

Defense Tech just published some new photos of that C-130H that collided with an RQ-7 Shadow over Afghanistan last year.

According to their source, the aircraft lost all fuel out of the left wing — something you’d expect when a giant hole is punched in the wing. This meant that the right wing was full of 15,000-pounds of aviation fuel, a situation that caused the aircraft to tip so far to the right that it was in danger of tipping over and tearing the wings and wing box apart while the plane sat on the ground at a forward operating base.

Maintenance crews scrambled for three days to level the aircraft and it’s now being fully repaired in Utah.

Source: Defense Tech

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