1988 : C-130E 61-2373, c/n 3720, of the 154th Tactical Airlift Training Squadron, crashed five kilometers short of runway while on approach to Greenville , Mississippi . 227. August 17, 1988 : Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , President of Pakistan from 1978, was killed when the C-130B he was on (PAF 23494, ex-USAF