Hunt the Lockheed - The Azari C-130 Crash

The Azari C-130 Crash
Example of Debris from the Collision of a Large Aircraft with a Building

On December 5, 2005, a C-130 military transport plane crashed into a 10-story apartment building in Azari, Iran, a suburb of Tehran. All 10 crew and 84 passengers on board were killed, and 21 people in the building were killed. Most of the passengers were Iranian radio and television journalists. 1

The photographs on this page show the crash site. It is notworthy that none of the photographs show large pieces of aircraft.

The idea that a the Pentagon was not struck by a jetliner on 9/11/01 is often asserted on the basis that there was insufficient aircraft debris in front of the Pentagon following the attack. The Azari crash is one of several examples that shows crashes of large aircraft into buildings do not necessarily leave large recognizalbe pieces of aircraft. A C-130 is a four-engine turboprop aircraft similar in weight to a Boeing 757. The fact that the C-130's pilot was attempting to land, contrasts with the fact that the Pentagon attack plane approached at about double landing speed, makes the paucity of rubble in the Azari crash more surprising than in the Pentagon crash.