NEWS: National Guard plane makes emergency landing at TF Green

 

Two Rhode Island Air National Guard C-130 planes flank a Navy FA/18 Hornet jet at Quonset Air National Guard base on Dec. 3, 2014. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News
Two Rhode Island Air National Guard C-130 planes flank a Navy FA/18 Hornet jet at Quonset Air National Guard base on Dec. 3, 2014. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News

Two Rhode Island Air National Guard C-130 planes flank a Navy FA/18 Hornet jet at Quonset Air National Guard base on Dec. 3, 2014. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News 


 

WPRO News

A National Guard C-130 transport plane made an emergency landing at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick Tuesday morning after sustaining damage to its windshield on a training flight.

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Parente of the National Guard said the large plane was on a routine training flight out of Quonset Air Station.

“Approximately fifteen minutes into the flight the pilot noticed a crack had developed in the windshield,” Parente.

While the pilot normally would have turned around and landed back at Quonset, Lt. Col. Parente said the land instruments at the airbase were being upgraded, the pilot opted to land at TF Green instead.

Parente said that the pilot and crew never in any danger.

 

 

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