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C5 crashes near Dover AFB
ABC News | 04/03/2006

Posted on 04/03/2006 5:10:20 AM PDT by Trust but Verify

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To: Trust but Verify
I'm only able to listen to the radio coverage and they are saying the nose in front of the flight-deck sheared off and also possible tail damage. But otherwise the plane appears to be intact.
41 posted on 04/03/2006 5:28:38 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: grjr21

Oh, geez. That severed the passenger compartment. I guess the blessing is they can hold up to 75 people (IIRC), and these early reports are only stating 17 on board (including crew).


42 posted on 04/03/2006 5:28:43 AM PDT by Coop (Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
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To: Gaffer

Was there a crash there?


43 posted on 04/03/2006 5:29:47 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny; Gaffer

I presume Gaffer meant that's where the flight originated.


44 posted on 04/03/2006 5:30:35 AM PDT by Coop (Proud founding member of GCA - Gruntled Conservatives of America)
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To: leadpenny

Near there, it was the only other crash outside of VN at the time. I believe they attributed it to Pilot Error (accidentally hit reverse thrusters).....


45 posted on 04/03/2006 5:31:06 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Abathar

Prayers to family crew and squadron mates.

We lost a C-130 in 1991 with 5 on board. The unit was devestated for a while.


C-5. Loved it but not the most relaible. In 1997 in Cairo had a C-5 to pick us up. I broke. Another came and broke as well. went home Cat Y, commercial.


46 posted on 04/03/2006 5:31:18 AM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: Coop

No there was a C-5 crash a few years ago in Germany...


47 posted on 04/03/2006 5:31:45 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Mark17

See post #26


48 posted on 04/03/2006 5:31:47 AM PDT by all4one
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To: Trust but Verify

Mostly intack.

Hope all the crew and Pax survived.


49 posted on 04/03/2006 5:32:12 AM PDT by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: Trust but Verify
Prayers for the safety to all those on board.

This is one of our worst nightmares. My daughter is loadmaster on the C-17...and there is always that worry about your kid flying these huge birds....they go up but worry like hell how well they come down. And it doesnt help when she lets us know when something isnt 'working right' and they needed to be grounded for the fixes.

50 posted on 04/03/2006 5:32:18 AM PDT by arbee4bush (Our Airman Daughter KB4W--Hero, Patriot and the Love of her mom & dads life!)
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To: JRios1968

Ping...

Pictures on Fox News now.


51 posted on 04/03/2006 5:32:21 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (You're kind of crazy, but in a very good way. - broham)
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To: Trust but Verify

There are emergency exit chutes deployed, so somebody got out alive.


53 posted on 04/03/2006 5:33:01 AM PDT by bad company ("Any damned fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you all screwed up." - James F. Hol.)
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To: martin_fierro

It's a full-time job just feeding these things.

54 posted on 04/03/2006 5:33:06 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: all4one
See post #26

Roger that.

55 posted on 04/03/2006 5:33:40 AM PDT by Mark17
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To: grjr21

Video link

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?section=News&id=3941031


56 posted on 04/03/2006 5:34:28 AM PDT by grjr21
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To: arbee4bush

I used to fly on C-130s a bunch....two things always amused me....first was, "If we're gonna hit, I'll give three short blasts on the horn, and then one long one right before we hit." The other was that all of the pax in the back could see the 5 (five) parachutes lined up on the forward bulkhead behind the flight deck. We always thought, "Who's gonna be around to blow the horn?"


57 posted on 04/03/2006 5:35:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: all4one

R u sure your picture is a C-5?


58 posted on 04/03/2006 5:36:15 AM PDT by Broker (Navy Phlyer)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
C-17

Yeah kind of small when parked next to a C5

59 posted on 04/03/2006 5:36:35 AM PDT by ReformedBeckite
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To: csvset
Update on the WBOC story:

DOVER (WBOC/AP)- A C-5 airplane crashed at around 6:30 a.m. this morning in a field off of Route 9, about one mile south of the Dover Air Force Base.

According to Tech. Sgt. Melissa Phillips of the Dover Air Force Base, 17 people were aboard the plane and said their conditions are not known. Phillips also said she is not certain if the crash site is on, or off, base property.

Another source told WBOC that the 17 were taken to Kent General Hospital for their injuries. It is not known yet if there were any fatalities.

According to an assistant fire chief with the Dover Fire Department, the plane lost its second engine and the plane crashed. The plane was broken into three pieces: the nose, fuselage and the tail.

A board of officers will convene to investigate the crash. Route 9 is closed near the crash scene. More details forthcoming.

60 posted on 04/03/2006 5:36:45 AM PDT by Heatseeker (Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
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