I was following a thread on FB with several AF vets commenting on the technicals of those planes and particularly the engines. It seems to happen more than you think.
Ive told a story around here in the past about a C-5 I picked up. The story that we were told at the time was that it was the first to ever go down and that all 17 passengers were killed (Ramstein). The other pilots on base at the time were supposedly saying that they believed it was a microburst that brought it down. That it just flopped down like it had been slapped out of the sky by God.
Im an "expert", I heard this first hand from those who breifed us and then I picked up the plane myself and was told by "experts" what caused it.
Only recently did I discover that it wasnt the first, not everyone was killed, and that it really crashed because of a component failure that was causing the engines to suddenly reverse and the AF sued Lockheed over it. It actually rolled and flew forward into the crash as one would expect in a crash.
Apparently, the only true thing I knew about the event was that there were 17 passengers.