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C5 Crash at Dover AFB.

By The Armorer on April 5, 2006 | | Comments (6)

I know I was traveling on the 3rd, but local news sure was more interested in the pending vote on a billion-dollar roof for our local sports stadiums (which lost, I believe) than this - the crash of the C5 at Dover AFB...

U.S. Air Force photo/Doug Curran

Everybody aboard survived. Tough bird - with all due credit to the flight crew and her maintainers.

Three hi-res pics here. 1. 2. 3.

Anybody (who's old enough) remember *this* crash - 31 years and a day ago?

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By cw4(ret)billt on April 5, 2006 6:27 AM
There were a lot of C-5A crashes early on--I remember Babylift. What really stuck was the live footage of the surviving nurses walking around in the night, not tending each others' injuries, but looking for kids in the weeds...
 
By AFSister on April 5, 2006 7:34 AM
I posted about this yesterday- scary scary stuff. My brother will be assigned to one of these giant beasties in a month.
 
By Maggie on April 5, 2006 8:37 AM
I remember Operation Babylift and I remember the nuns leading us in prayer after the crash.
 
By Murray on April 5, 2006 6:04 PM
We were waiting for them to arrive in Singapore. One of them was slated to be my sibling. They never arrived. Depressing.
 
By GSU on April 11, 2006 4:45 PM
To cw4.........."alot of c5 crashes early on". This was the Fourth crash of a c5 in total! I would dare to say that this does not qualify as a lot!
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 11, 2006 9:00 PM
GSU, my sense of irony *forces* me to suggest that to the participants, one is enough. But your point is otherwise taken.
 
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