You recall correctly Bruce. It was a sandbag drop simulating CDS. 12 March 1985. As a result of this accident, C-130 formation airdrop procedures for CDS were modified requiring each aircraft in an element to establish greater spacing. I think it was a minimum of 1 minute spacing to avoid prop wash. I was a student Nav during that deployment. When I finally got to Elmendorf (17 TAS) we accomplished spacing at the IP by #2 and #3 doing 360s over the IP at stacked altitudes. I left Tactical Airlift for SOF after that assignment so I don't know if that modified procedure was ever lifted.
