Cargo Plane Crashes at Dover Air Base

Fox News ^ | April 03, 2006 | AP

[LoudRepublicangirl]

That was the "H-4 Hercules" AKA the "Spruce Goose." Obviously Lockheed ressurected the "Hercules" name for the C-130.



This is what I love about men. You guys know all about this stuff.

[Paleo Conservative]

Was it a C-5A or C-5B?

[GarySpFc]

On another website it said 17 were killed.

[Paleo Conservative]

According to Fox News all 17 passengers on board survived.

DOVER, Del. — A huge military cargo plane developed problems after takeoff and crashed attempting to return to Dover Air Force Base on Monday, breaking apart short of the runway, officials said. All 17 people aboard survived, though several were injured.

[ops33]

No.

[Gamecock]

Prayers are with the crew and passengers.

Lady Gamecock is supposed to hop back home to Germany tomorrow, she is quite spun up right now....

[mugs99]

Was it a C-5A or C-5B?
Don't know, but from the photo it doesn't look like a wing problem.
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[Yo-Yo]

C-5B according to this post.

[Junior]

Oddly enough, tomorrow's the 31st anniversary of one of the most famous C-5 crashes.

[Gay State Conservative]

Operation Babylift is,IMO,one of the finest moments in the history (recent history,at least) of the United States Armed Forces.

And to think there are clowns in this country and other western countries that have,for 40+ years,seen our troops as war criminals and baby killers.

[brooklin]

They may have put more cargo on on take-off, with plans to refuel enroute. They were still fortunate to not have had a fire. Good pilots.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I am not sure about that, however, the government had airplane manufactures compete on a transport plane that was a heavy lifter back in the 1960s, and Lockheed and Boeing were in the competition, and Lockheed won the contract to build the heavy lifter.
That is what came out of that program the C-5-A Galaxy lifter.
Boeing had a design , but didn't win the contract, however, instead of just canning the design, they used their resources, designs ( also with Juan Tripp's ( C.E.O. of Pan Am airlines ) input ) and developed the 747.