Update C-5 incident at Dover AFB
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Update C-5 incident at Dover AFB
Credit for this report goes to my buddy Robert
This is a very good example of why we should reserve judgement in cases of apparent human failure until all the facts are known.
......My Officer Candidate School classmate works for Lockheed Martin in Atlanta. He sent me this update on the recent crash of an Air Force C-5A......
"I was reading an update on the crash and this is what witnesses are reporting; The C-5 flew into a huge flock of seagulls right after lift off and they lost #2 engine immediately, and were losing power on #1 and #3 engines. Evidently the other engines failed as they were turning final - and at the high gross weight it became a brick. The pilots did a hell of a job just getting it down wings level. Note that in the pictures there are no sliding tracks or marks of any kind in the dirt. The C-5 evidently hit hard, the tail broke off and the rest of the plane bounced high and landed several hundred yards from the tail and stopped right where you see it without sliding."
PS: I don't know how to post pics yet. Oh well.
This is a very good example of why we should reserve judgement in cases of apparent human failure until all the facts are known.
......My Officer Candidate School classmate works for Lockheed Martin in Atlanta. He sent me this update on the recent crash of an Air Force C-5A......
"I was reading an update on the crash and this is what witnesses are reporting; The C-5 flew into a huge flock of seagulls right after lift off and they lost #2 engine immediately, and were losing power on #1 and #3 engines. Evidently the other engines failed as they were turning final - and at the high gross weight it became a brick. The pilots did a hell of a job just getting it down wings level. Note that in the pictures there are no sliding tracks or marks of any kind in the dirt. The C-5 evidently hit hard, the tail broke off and the rest of the plane bounced high and landed several hundred yards from the tail and stopped right where you see it without sliding."
PS: I don't know how to post pics yet. Oh well.
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[QUOTE=6T6CPE]This is a very good example of why we should reserve judgement in cases of apparent human failure until all the facts are known./QUOTE]
I totally agree! We should wait and see.
Originally I believed that birds and/or mechanical failure must have been the cause and I posted my opinion in an earlier thread. Since then, I have received information from a very reliable source which indicates crew error. I can explain further when the information is released to the public.
I totally agree! We should wait and see.
Originally I believed that birds and/or mechanical failure must have been the cause and I posted my opinion in an earlier thread. Since then, I have received information from a very reliable source which indicates crew error. I can explain further when the information is released to the public.
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I work at Lockheed Martin in Ft. Worth. Anyway, I saw the C5 crashed and found out it was one that had the new engine and avionics retrofit package and wondered if that had anything to do with the crash. At least it wasn't that or pilot error, but birds. Them getting sucked into the engine does a heck of alot of damage.
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Birds will definitely take out aircraft.Stationed at Midway Island in the late 60's when in Navy.Watched a fully loaded KC-135 injest several goonies on takeoff,and go into the drink with no survivors.Goony birds were a major problem.They nested at both ends of the runways.Lots of bird strikes and a few fatalities.National Geographic magazine once did an article on the "Goonies of Midway".