That big plane you saw in the sky over Timmins Monday was a C-130 Hercules combined cargo and passenger plane flown by the Canadian Forces.
Airport manager Dave Dayment says it’s typically used for fire and flood evacuations, or in today’s case, for training.
“They will practice throwing something out of the aircraft and practice a search and rescue event,” he explains. “And then they would deploy search and rescue techs by parachute as if they were going to find a lost ship or a hiker or a plane that would be down.”
And it wasn’t as low as you think. Dayment says it was flying at 2,000 or 2,500 feet.
“People normally wouldn’t see an aircraft that large in this area,” Dayment remarks. “But it was certainly high enough and it was at a safe altitude, but its size made it look a little lower.”
The big plane did not land at the Victor M. Power Airport this time around.
