Mario Braña failed to recognize the loss of power to the engine and call for the takeoff to be aborted. The report also cited a “breakdown in visual scan,” and said flight engineer Master Sgt. However, it is understood that pilots can only skip such briefings when the crew conducts multiple takeoffs or landings in the same day, and it had been several days since the crew flew and last heard those emergency action procedures. The report said that Rosado also did not brief the crew on emergency action procedures during the pre-flight checklist, instead saying that “everything else remains the same,” indicating that what he said on a previous flight still applied. Its left wing lost lift and stalled and the plane crashed on a highway about 1.5 miles from the airport. But Rosado increasingly turned the rudder to the left, which he was not supposed to do, until the plane skidded. The plane had enough airspeed to keep flying during the bank, the report said. He banked the plane right, away from the faulty engine, once it was airborne to stay aligned with the runway’s centerline. Román Rosado, made an unspecific comment about something being wrong with the plane as he took control of the yoke about the time the nose wheel lifted off - but he did not abort the takeoff.
The WC-130 began pulling to the left, and veered so sharply left when the nose wheel lifted off that the plane nearly departed the runway. The report said that the first engine’s revolutions-per-minute began fluctuating during the takeoff roll, and a few seconds before the aircraft’s nose wheel left the ground, the engine’s RPM and torque significantly decayed.
But it crashed less than two minutes after takeoff, at about 11:27 a.m., and killed all nine aboard. The WC-130 was to be flown from the Hilton Head International Airport in Savannah, Georgia, to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona - better known as the Boneyard - to be removed from service.
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