{"id":404108,"date":"2026-04-12T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-c130-hercules-damage-hatchet-shannon-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:12:47","slug":"usaf-c-130-hercules-sustains-extensive-damage-in-hatchet-attack-at-shannon-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404108","title":{"rendered":"USAF C-130 Hercules Sustains &#8216;Extensive Damage&#8217; In Hatchet Attack At Shannon Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> C-130 Hercules was damaged while parked at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3495229\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/shannon-airport-1\/\"  >Shannon Airport<\/a><\/span> (SNN) on Saturday, after a man climbed aboard the wing and started attacking the fuselage with a hatchet. The man was spotted at around 9:45 am when seen in a restricted area of the airport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man armed with a hatchet infiltrated Shannon Airport, climbing onto a parked USAF C-130 Hercules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6067,5628,1869,16569,2703,3109,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-130","category-hercules","category-ireland","category-manufacturers","category-security-breach","category-shannon-airport","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404142,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404108\/revisions\/404142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}