Major Tacke was serving as navigator aboard a C-130E Hercules. On March 8, 1969 while approaching Ching Chuan Kang AFB in Taichung, Taiwan, the aircraft encountered poor weather conditions. In below weather minima, the crew decided to continue the approach when the airplane struck the ground and crashed in flames short of the runway threshold. The aircraft was totally destroyed, and he was killed along with nine of his twelve crewmen.
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