Coast Guards bad day!

[Lashlander]

The Coast Guard operates a loran station on St. Paul Island in the middle of the Bering Sea, They flew a C130 with a loaded fuel truck in to refill the tanks. When they landed the pilot reversed his props to slow it down. Three reversed and one didn't. It hung a right and went out into the tundra. The nose gear collapsed and one of the wings hit the ground. No one was hurt and the fuel truck stayed put. They disassembled the plane and hauled it to our dock and we off loaded it into the yard.

[Countryboy]

You've got an awesome job. Quit rubbing it in. :bouncegri

Seriously, those are excellent pictures. :thumbsup

[tylermckee]

My dad lives in Kodiak, ive been there once.

[digger242j]

No one was hurt and the fuel truck stayed put.

Considering what could have happened, I'd say they had a really GOOD day! :eek:

Cool pics! (Again.) :thumbsup

[Lashlander]

Considering what could have happened, I'd say they had a really GOOD day! :eek:

Ya you could have a point!

[Lashlander]

My dad lives in Kodiak, ive been there once.

Whats your Dad do?

[King of Obsolete]

great pictures lashlander, tell us more on all that "cat" equipment around the place.

thansk

[Ford LT-9000]

Those D-300s on the barge look like they are rusty :confused:

It was good the plane didn't get more damaged they were lucky. Another rarity to see is a old GMC General (gray truck tractor) still in use :D

Looking at the pictures reminds me of what we do here just looks a little colder :yup

[Lashlander]

Those Cat articulaters were just passing though on that barge. They belong to an outfit that was doing a road job down in King Cove. The old tractor is a brigadier and belongs to the Coast Guard. We dohave a couple Generals though. Parts for them pretty much don't exist anymore. They are offroaders now.

[King of Obsolete]

must be one big barge with all that equipment on. can you tell us some more????

thansk

[Lashlander]

The barge is owned by Crowley Maritime, Its 240' X 70' X16'. Crowley operates world wide I believe. They own container ships and fuel and deck barges and hundreds of tugs.

[King of Obsolete]

thansk, will do a google search and see what comes up, learned something new today.

thansk

[rino1494]

great pics :thumbsup

[DigDug]

Nice pics, thanks!

[Wulf]

Great photographs... I'm glad I don't have to fix stuff that flies... must be a terrific responsibility to ensure airworthiness after a big bump like that!

I didn't know what a loran station was :confused: until I googled it and found wikipedias explanation ... the internet is great isn't it!