AFSOC C-130s Return to Service Upon Inspection
8/9/2019
​—Rachel S. Cohen
​Two C-130s belonging to Air Force Special Operations Command were inspected for unusual wing joint cracks and returned to service after no defects were discovered, an AFSOC spokeswoman said Aug. 9.
The EC-130J Commando Solo, an information and psychological operations plane, and an AC-130W Stinger II gunship were the only two special-operations platforms that required a closer look as the Air Force checks about one-fourth of all Lockheed Martin C-130s for “rainbow fitting†cracks.
Air Mobility Command calls the breaks “atypical†because they were seen on one aircraft in a spot where they “had not previously been observed on C-130s,†AMC spokeswoman Alexandra Soika said.
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