Incirlik - Incirlik

On September 2, 1958 at 02:00 PM, Incirlik - Incirlik experienced a crash involving Lockheed C-130 Hercules, operated by United States Air Force - USAF, with the event recorded near Talin Aragatsotn.

The flight was categorized as survey / patrol / reconnaissance and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

17 people were known to be on board, 17 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 6, passengers on board: 11, passenger fatalities: 11, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is terrorism act, hijacking, sabotage. The crew departed Incirlik AFB near Adana on a survey flight over Turkey. The mission consisted of an overflight of the region of Trabzon and Van, maintaining a minimum distance of 160 km with the Turkey/Armenia border. The crew passed over the city of Trabzon at an altitude of 25,500 feet and instead of changing its direction to the south bound for Van, the airplane continued to the east. While flying over Armenia at an altitude of 22,000 feet, the Hercules was shot down by an air-air missile fired by the pilot of a Soviet fighter. Out of control, the four engine aircraft dove into the ground and crashed near the city of Talin. Few weeks later, the bodies of six crew members were transferred to the US Authorities while nothing was heard anymore about the 11 intelligence-gathering personnel belonging to the United States Air Force Security Service (USAFSS).

Aircraft reference details include registration 56-0528, MSN 3136, year of manufacture 1957.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 40.3845°, 43.8771°.