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2006-04-03 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2006-04-03 08:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No fire, amazingly.
Probably landing then, it would be full of fuel on takeoff, landing it's near empty.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-04-03 10:58|| 2006-04-03 10:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Also heard that all are alive! I was always amazed when I watched one of them fly.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-04-03 11:23|| 2006-04-03 11:23|| Front Page Top

#3 it would be full of fuel on takeoff, landing it's near empty.

C-5s often take off with minimum fuel load, meeting a tanker soon after. Easier to lift that big bird full of cargo off with lighter fuel load.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-04-03 12:28|| 2006-04-03 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Loss of engine on takeoff is purty bad but evidently they got altitude and setup for landing, on 3 which shouldn't have been so hard, bet it was more than a single engine failure.

Posted by 6 2006-04-03 15:59|| 2006-04-03 15:59|| Front Page Top

#5 DOVER, Del. A huge military cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Dover Air Force Base on Monday, breaking apart in a belly flop that drenched some of the 17 people aboard with fuel but caused no fire or life-threatening injuries. Its a miracle. Its absolutely a miracle, said Lt. Col. Mark Ruse, commander of Dovers 436th Air Wing Civil Engineering squadron.

Military officials said the C-5 Galaxy, the militarys largest plane at more than six stories high and 247 feet long, developed problems soon after taking off for Spain about 6:30 a.m. It crashed just short of the runway while attempting to return to the base and broke in two behind the cockpit. The tail assembly landed several hundred yards away, and an engine was thrown forward by the impact. It looks like it kind of slid along the ground almost like a water landing of sorts, Ruse said.

Fourteen of the injured, taken to a Dover hospital, were covered with jet fuel and had to be decontaminated in the parking lot, but officials said none of their injuries was considered life threatening. Three others were taken to Christiana Care in Newark, said hospital spokeswoman Sharon Justice. The hospital would not release further information, but the military said none of the crash survivors lives was in danger.

The C-5 was being flown by a reserve crew from the 512th Airlift Wing, said Capt. John Sheets of the Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. All flights from the base were suspended as emergency crews, some in hazardous materials suits, combed through the wreckage in a light rain under overcast skies. Some sprayed foam on the left wing, which had lost its engine, while others removed the remaining fuel from the plane.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-04-03 16:29|| 2006-04-03 16:29|| Front Page Top

#6 There's got to be more than a one-engine flameout. Go through the emergency checklest. Set up for a landing.

We had an E3-B AWACS crash at Elmendorf AFB on Sept 22, 1995. Killed all the crew. The #1 engine ingested some birds, blew up, pieces took out #2 engine. She was full of fuel and rolled over on her left wing and became a smoking hole.
It was right near the highway. That black smoke was an awful sight.

These people in the C-5A were very very lucky.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-04-03 16:41|| 2006-04-03 16:41|| Front Page Top

#7 The pictures resembled those of a B-52H that crashed at Wright Patt in 1974. The BUFF had lost hydraulics and had neither rudder nor elevator control. The pilots controlled it by the engines, up and down by varying power settings and left and right by differential thrust. After flying around for 8 hours to burn off fuel to get to landing weight, the plane was attempting to land when it suddenly pitched nose down into the runway. The nose broke off and rolled off the runway. The engine cables sheared and put all 8 engines to max power. The remainder of the plane went straight up, did a wingover and impacted 500 yards down the runway in a fireball. It was almost 30 minutes before anyone noticed the nose off to the side of the runway. All 7 crew (6 + 1 IP) were alive, but hanging upside down in their seats. Only the pilot in the IP seat was hurt(a compression fracture). Pilot in Command, Major Charlie Brown.

Posted by RWV 2006-04-03 20:30|| 2006-04-03 20:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Something to thank our "intelligent designer" about tonight for sure.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-03 21:36|| 2006-04-03 21:36|| Front Page Top

#9 I think this is the third C5 to crash, at least that I know of. Very lucky crew, other two were not so lucky. Hope they figure out the cause soon.

Posted by 49 pan 2006-04-03 21:40|| 2006-04-03 21:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Agree with STEVE - here on Guam one routinely sees more tankers flying around Andersen USAFB and WESTPAC than transports, fighters or bombers.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-03 22:09|| 2006-04-03 22:09|| Front Page Top

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