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To: Mr Fowl
Talking about snowgeese I wonder if that C5 hit a migrating flock of snowgeese????

If the story is right about 2 engines out, bird ingestion is a good first guess.

150 posted on 04/03/2006 6:30:14 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

We always got reports about black birds in the area when we flew into or out of Dover.


152 posted on 04/03/2006 6:32:22 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: r9etb; All

The circle indicates the location of the tail section from the crash site.

Link to News Source for Crash Photos

154 posted on 04/03/2006 6:34:37 AM PDT by all4one
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To: r9etb
The story said something about losing its "second engine"...I was wondering about that, because if it only lost one engine, I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't be able to make it around and land.

If it lost two engines--especially if they were on the same wing? I'm even more stunned the pilot was able to get it down in that field more-or-less intact.

And this explains why the Air Force doesn't usually mess around with flocks of birds:

Boeing E-3B Sentry 77-0354 was military Boeing 707-derivative, a.o. equipped and AWACS system. The aircraft, operated by the US Air Force 962nd Airborne Air Control Sqn, 3rd Wing, was assigned call-sign Yukla 27 for a 6.2 hr training mission. At 07:43 Yukla 27 was holding short of runway 5, waiting for takeoff, when a Lockheed Hercules departed. This aircraft disturbed a flock of Canada geese. The Yukla 27 crew were not warned about this by the tower controller. At 07:45 they were cleared for takeoff and the throttles were advanced. As the plane rotated for lift-off numerous geese were ingested in the no. 1 and 2 engines resulting in a catastrophic no. 2 engine failure and a stalling no. 1 engine. The crew initiated a slow climbing turn to the left and began to dump fuel. The aircraft attained a maximum altitude of 250 feet before it started to descend. The plane impacted a hilly, wooded area less than a mile from the runway, broke up, exploded and burned.

From aviation-safety.net, link here.

}:-)4

166 posted on 04/03/2006 6:49:52 AM PDT by Moose4 ("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
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