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The accident marked the second operational loss and first fatal crash for the C-5 Galaxy fleet, and is the third deadliest accident involving a U.S. military aircraft after the 1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown and Arrow Air Flight 1285R.
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
A USAF Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, 68-0218, c/n 500-0021, taking part in Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, experiences an explosive decompression about 40 mi (64 km) outside Saigon when the rear ramp and pressure door blow out, damaging the plane's flight controls.
1975 Tân Sơn Nhứt C-5 accident This page was last edited on 27 March 2013, at 13:21 (UTC). Text is ...
DOVER — A Dover man was one of the five U.S. Marines who died in a routine military helicopter training flight outside of San Diego.. Capt. Jack Casey, a 26-year-old CH-53E helicopter pilot, was ...
The first crash involving a Bell-Boeing Osprey occurs when the fifth MV-22, BuNo 163915, three minutes into its maiden flight at a Boeing flight test facility at Wilmington, Delaware, suffers problems with the gyros due to incorrect wiring in the flight-control system [55] and crashes into the ground from a 15-foot (4.6 metre) hover during an ...
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A University of Delaware student and Eagle Scout was killed in a motorcycle crash near Dover on Tuesday, according to Delaware State Police. The victim, identified publicly Saturday as 18-year-old ...