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This is the story of the 2012 Norwegian Air Force C-130 crash. The c130 is one of the most popular military airplanes ever, The c130 has been in production since 1954 and with over 2500 planes made to date its safe to say that militaries around the world love the plane, The plane in featured heavily in the air forces of the US, UK , Canada India, pakistan and as well see Norway.

The C130 is so robust that one has landed and taken off from an american aircraft carrier without using the arrestor wire or the catapult. Something even more insane is the fact the US air force modified a C130 so that it could land in a sports stadium, during the iranian hostage crisis. To call this plane versatile would be an understatement.

On the 15th of march 2012, A Norwegian airforce c130 would be flying from harstad airport or evenes in norway to Kiruna airport in sweden, the flight was a part of the norwegian military exercise “Cold Response”, their callsign for today was HAZE 01 and that's how were gonna be referring to the flight. Today they were flying a transport flight. Their mission was to fly to Kiruna and pick up Norwegian personnel and then fly back to norway. Once airborne they were to go into a holding pattern as they waited for a german transall c-160 to join them. Another norwegian C-130, call sign haze 02 would be meeting them at Kiruna,

At 1:40 PM HAZE 01 took off with two pilots, two loadmasters and one passenger. The plane was 45 NM from evenes when it entered a holding pattern. The plane was in the holding pattern for about an hour as they waited for the german plane.

The german plane had the call sign torch 3. Soon afterward at 1:54 Pm contact with torch 03 was established As they flew on the pilots configured the plane for tactical combat operations, The commander stated “TAWS void”. As they flew on they talked about the flight back, talking about altitudes to be used and the like. The crews set the radar altimeters to the same source . As they were trying to contact torch 03 they got an error. IFF 2 was malfunctioning. IFF or identification friend or foe, is a radar system that is used to identify if a particular plane is a friendly or a hostile. At 2:24 PM the load master asked about the TAWS system. He asks “Why does it say TAWS Tactical Void there?” The crew tells the loadmaster that the TAWS or the terrain awareness and warning system was not enabled as they were flying so high. Torch 03 radios in and they let the crew know that they're headed straight to waypoint VAGAS, Torch 3 lets the crew know that if they make contact with the troops they'd relay information to the crew. The crew of HAZE 01 were trying to get a hold of the troops on the ground at Kiruna, they’ve made several attempts but so far nothing was getting through.
At 2:44 Pm the copilot and the commander were talking about the terrain of the area. The copilot asks ``Is it right that the elevation of the mountains up here is 7,000 feet?” the captain replies “Ehh 6,600 something like that, ehhh...” The First officer lets ATC know that they're ready to descend. Meanwhile, Torch 3 had made contact with the ground troops, they asked Haze01 to leave the holding pattern and to head towards kiruna. Bodo control cleared haze 01 to the VOR Kilo Romeo Alfa.