[1] The disaster involved a Belgian Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft and resulted in the death of 34 passengers.

The incident is known as the "Hercules disaster" (Dutch: Herculesramp) in the Netherlands and Belgium.

At 6:02 pm local time, the transport aircraft crashed at Eindhoven Airport with a total of 41 people on board: Four Belgian crew members and 37 young members of the Fanfarekorps of the Royal Netherlands Army.

As the aircraft was coming in to land at Eindhoven, it encountered a flock of birds; it overshot, but lost power and crashed into the ground; a fire broke out, which destroyed the cockpit and forward fuselage, killing 32 people on board.

The Eindhoven airfield fire service were not initially aware that the transport aircraft was carrying passengers – it was thirty minutes before they realised this fact, by which time most of them had died in the post-crash fire.