Crashed C-130 is an unlisted location in the Yukon map. It is located in the mid-southern section of the map.
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It is located in the southern part of the map, east from Dawson Airstrip and south from Quill Creek. Construction Type loot spawn near the crashed airplane also with some Construction and Civilian zombies around it. A Mega Zombie can spawn.
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- The crashed plane is a C-130, the same airplane that drops the Carepackage.
- This may explain why airdrops are unavailable in Yukon since the plane, which possibly carried the Carepackage, crashed. Strangely, this plane does not seem to have carried a crate.
- Despite canonically being an AC-130, it appears to be a C-130, lacking any guns.
- The plane could have been part of an evacuation to rescue all survivors, which would explain why there was no crate in the plane.
- If the plane had never come back, the Coalition could have assumed that the area was completely infected and never bothered to send airdrops.
- The cause of the crash is unknown, but it may be due to wing icing, low visibility, or engine failure. Infection is unlikely, as the plane seems to have tried to land in a controlled manner.
- Bad weather may have been a major factor.
- Yukon is generally regarded as the map where flying is the most difficult, since the snowfall greatly impairs vision.
- Not only that, but icing conditions cause ice to accumulate on the wing, and reduces lift dramatically in low speed conditions such as landing. Ice buildup on wings may lead to the C-130 losing lift and stalling (plane points up but plane goes down).
- C-130s, however, have full instrument flight capabilities, allowing it to fly in extremely low visibility conditions, so simply losing control due to visibility issues is therefore not very likely, more probably contributing, but not in a major factor.
- Engine failure is another likely cause, as it crashed just short of Dawson Airstrip, probably trying to land.
- However, the C-130 is capable of flying with only 1 engine, so quad-engine failure is unlikely, unless the aircraft ran out of fuel.
- Another theory is that the plane may have ran out of fuel while landing.
- This is further suggested by the lack of visible evidence of a fuel fire and explosion after the crash. In most crashes, the fuel spills out and catches on fire, blowing the wreck apart with an explosion. This is surprisingly lacking in the crash.
- Bad weather may have been a major factor.
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