Peculiar Crash
Reference video:
http://thewebfairy.com/fireplane/planecrash617.asf
http://www.airdisaster.com/movies/tanker.avi

In June 2002, a C 130A firefighting plane crashed.
The official explanation is that the wings on that model were structurally weak, and fell off.

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/02/28/35668.php
http://html.thedenverchannel.com/sh/slideshow/_auto/sh2218s1.html

I'd say explosions tend to weaken wings dramatically.



A Hawkins & Powers Aviation C-130A 'Hercules' breaks apart and crashes while dropping fire retardant on a large forest fire near Walker, California. DIVX Video Codec Required. (KONO)

http://www.airdisaster.com/
movies/tanker.avi

More Strangeness

When this firefighting plane exploded and fell out of the sky last June, we thought it was peculiar, and someone found a video at ogrish.com. It's horrible quality, recorded with a video camera off a TV.
Two separate clips of the crash are each made with a different selection of frames.

Reviewing it, I discovered the frames have been mangled like the Ztoon. This is inexplicable nless they were hiding something.

http://thewebfairy.com/
fireplane/whattha.htm
I have slowed and enhanced part of the AirDisaster.com clip as a demonstration.

Here it is enhanced to the best of my ability to improve the color and contrast.

http://thewebfairy.com/fireplane/
firetanker.optimized.wmv (527k)

Here is the same footage false-color edge enhancement


http://thewebfairy.com/fireplane/
firetanker.color.wmv (667k)
Multiple explosions are evident, and apparently began before the plane emerged from the smoke. The wings did not simply "fall off."