HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
No other description for it.
( Jimbotfu is fisting your ear, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 14:56, Reply)

Unlucky!
Blu-tac must of needed replacing!
( Firkinfedup was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 14:59, Reply)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Poor sods in that thing :O
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 14:59, Reply)

Holy fucking shit !!

(mrmatt got jolly batey on, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Jeepers!
At least it was quick I suppose.
( TheSundaeLunch avoided a manpad up the flaptrack on, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:00, Reply)

What caused this?
Fox News say the fire did it. Leave the fire alone. I didn't even see any fire.
( jeffrey44 Please like me., Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:01, Reply)

there's flames licking off the wings as they fall off
probably a spark as they ripped off igniting the fuel though, rather than the cause
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:05, Reply)

jesus christ on a zomboni
that was crazy.. never seen wings on an aircraft just fold like that
( Ive mastered quantum pumkin absorbacy rate is wearing Jesus' underpants as a hat, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:01, Reply)

The sides fell off

( Rebel biscuit This machine kills wasps, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:02, Reply)

^Hahahahahahaha
(thoughts are with the families)
( Jimbotfu is fisting your ear, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:04, Reply)

I'm not saying it isn't safe.
Just that the other ones are safer.
( mofaha sitting quietly, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:13, Reply)

wow.
I imagine that's one engineer who'll be losing his job sharpish. If that plane's been doing it for years the strain on the wings must have been noticeable - it'll have been his call. Now the question is whether the crew knew about the risks but couldn't pay for it because firefighters are underfunded or if it was negligence on their own part.

Terrible accident.

edit: just noticed the flame too. That fuel feed shouldn't just rip open and catch fire either, especially on this kind of plane.
(morrybyte made a subtle namechange at, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:06, Reply)

some quality engineering there.
How the hell do the wings just fall off? Did they overload it or something?
( Damocles Ceci n'est pas une signature, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:07, Reply)

www.iasa.com.au/folders/Publications/Legal_Issues/PearblossomC130.html
( Rebel biscuit This machine kills wasps, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:09, Reply)

I suppose technically...the plane fell off the wings.
Chuff knows. Can't happen too often, though.
( Jimbotfu is fisting your ear, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:09, Reply)

Many aircraft have engines that can exceed the structural integrity of their attachment to the fusilage.
maybe he was gunning it to get out of there. I've been in C130s and they're reliable as all get out. I say it was ninja kittens.
( BrokenCoccyx pees out his penis and poops out his poopis, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:15, Reply)

I tried slowing down the clip and I didn't see any ninja kittens.
Of course if they were proper ninjas you wouldn't see them anyway...
So yeah, I think you're probably right about the kittens.
( mofaha sitting quietly, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:17, Reply)

or

( Rebel biscuit This machine kills wasps, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:23, Reply)

Pffffft!
Also: "Lock S-Foils in attack position!"
( Jimbotfu is fisting your ear, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:30, Reply)

"stumpy" isn't the word i'm looking for but..
It's not a C-130, mate. C-130's are shorter and stumpier. I think it's a Russian copy, like an AN-12? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-12
(crm114, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 16:04, Reply)

Cheap ass russian shite then?
I stupidly would of thought that planes would have sensors all over the place giving readouts of structural integrity and the like. I guess I'm just a deluded fool!

I would still like to believe that there was a little flashing warning on the dashboard... **WARNING, WINGS NOT FOUND, PLEASE ATTACH SOME WINGS AND TRY AGAIN... abort/retry/cancel**
( Firkinfedup was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 18:16, Reply)

Not looked at the official report but
Metal Fatigue.

When you constantly load and unload the wings, this causes strain on the metal spars holding the wings to the fuselage. In much the same way you can repeatedly bend a paperclip until it snaps, the same happened here.

It is more likely to happen in firefighting aircraft than traditional commercial aircraft, because the sudden change in weight and distribution of the load in the firefighting equipment causes rapid stress on the airframe (and commercial airlines don't tend to rapidly offload during flight :-)
( DavyBoyInGravyJoy Grey Goose Vodka on Ice, nothing finer, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:48, Reply)

I'm guessing it banked too steeply.
It doesn't look like the kind of plane that's designed to be thrown around.
( mofaha sitting quietly, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:15, Reply)

DO A BARREL ROLL.

( Jimbotfu is fisting your ear, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:21, Reply)

Fuck!
Ya done goofed!
( ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:25, Reply)

Shit Holy Fucking
( Darklord, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 15:49, Reply)

Hmmm...
img98.imageshack.us/img98/5318/wingsye5.jpg

/hull
(6 a.m. Martini I drink Sambuca on the rocks and bloody like it!, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 16:10, Reply)

jesus fuck
as if I wasn't scared enough of flying already :s
( Mushroom, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 17:04, Reply)