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Prasun K. Sengupta responds to the issue -
Based on eye-witness accounts, the ill-fated C-130J-30 Super Hercules was on fire while it was in a nosedive. What this means is that there was a fire on-board, which somehow resulted in total loss of hydraulic power, which in turn meant that all control surfaces went kaput. And since the aircraft was cruising at a low-level (not terrain-hugging), it went into a sudden nose-dive & even increasing engine throttles at that stage wouldn’t have helped stabilise the airframe & would have made the situation even worse. It is definitely a case of human negligence, but not of the aircrew & this means the ground crew & its MRO practices/schedules will have to be investigated. Accidents/disasters never happen all of a sudden. Instead, they’re always triggered by a sequence of events & one error leads to another until the fatal crash. However, since the tail section was relatively intact means that the DFDR & CVR have all been successfully recovered & will greatly assist in the accident investigation. In addition, since the Super Hercules was acquired through the FMS channel, i.e. it was the USAF & not Lockheed Martin that sold the aircraft to the IAF, the USAF too will send its investigations team & data retrieval from the DFDR & CVR will in all probability be done by the USAF in the US, i.e. no cover-ups & everyone can rest assured that the results of the Board of Enquiry will be made public by the US side, unlike the MoD which prefers to keep such matters under wraps, much to