CG-1705 was a United States Coast Guard C-130 Hercules fixed wing aircraft in service at Air Station Sacramento, California. On the evening of October 29, 2009 CG-1705, with a crew of seven, launched for a search & rescue operation in the vicnity of San Clemente Island off the California coast. The aircraft’s assigned search pattern took it in and out of airspace Warning Area 291 where other military aircraft were operating. At approximately 1909 CG-1705 and Vengeance 38, a Marine Corps AH-1W Cobra attack helicopter, collided within the warning area. As a result of the collision, both aircraft were destroued with all seven Coast Guard crewmembers and both Marine crewmembers killed. |