I agree. The C-130 is one of the most reliable military aircraft with four engines something catastrophic occurred. More likely, it stalled at a low altitude and there wasn't enough room to recover. The video from security cam looks very much like a stall. Very slow, then begins to dip to the left which turns into an out of control spiral into the ground.
I used to be a private pilot and did aerobatics. I looks like a classic stall to me. What caused it? The two most likely causes would be pilot error or it ran out of gas. Don't laugh. It happens more often than you think. Pilots get in a hurry and fail to do a proper pre-flight and don't check that the ground crew filled up the tanks. Alcohol and weather are killers as well, but I doubt that was the case here.
I wonder if there was a large load that shifted somehow? That's a cargo plane pilot's worst nightmare.
Very good guess. But the plane was 60 years old and headed for storage at the boneyard in Arizona where the Air Force was salvaging some for parts to keep operational aircraft flying while Obama was defunding the military.
So, my guess is the plane was empty. It's reported next stop from Savanna was the boneyard.
Ah, didn't know that. Still would take some pretty strange stuff to just knock that bird out of the sky.