C-5 crashes near Dover AFB

[Camino LS6]

It crashed into a field and broke into three pieces. Weird to see such a massive aircraft lying on the ground. No fire, 17 people on board, some injuries.

[Chris_Doane]

Oops....my first thought was a C5 Corvette when I saw the title.

[Camino LS6]

"Sweet dreams and fine machines in pieces on the ground"

[Newbiewar]

Oops....my first thought was a C5 Corvette when I saw the title.

Broke into 3 peices... well okay, sounds weird... 17 people wooo! no wonder it crashed...

ohh, a plane... i see

[Chris_Doane]

Oops....my first thought was a C5 Corvette when I saw the title.

Broke into 3 peices... well okay, sounds weird... 17 people wooo! no wonder it crashed...

ohh, a plane... i see 

When I saw the *TITLE* of the thread.

Edited April 3, 2006 by CD/BP

[Newbiewar]

When I saw the *TITLE* of the thread.

yea me too... lol, i was thinking... well i'm sure C5's crash all the time, lets go see whats so special about this corvette... woo! 17 passengers... stretched limo? lol

[76ChevyTrucker]

Actually, the C5 Galaxy cargo aircraft doesn't crash all that often. They've had a very high safety record.

[capriceman]

well its rare for a military plane to crash at all. plus those have back ups for backups. and you need to be well educated and have expirence to fly that thing.

[76ChevyTrucker]

Actually, from talking to a C5 pilot, its not THAT hard to fly one, you just have to remember one thing and one thing only.....it doesn't respond on a dime.

[Mach5GTP]

Any details? Clearly it didn't fall out of the sky, it looks like it skidded off the runway. Thankfully nobody was killed.

[Sixty8panther]

I too thought Corvette at first... but the AFB tipped me off to the plane not the car.

Camino:

But I thought a crashed plane looks like this:

(Shanksville PENN, Sept. 2001)

[Camino LS6]

It did not crash on takeoff. The plane took off from Dover and developed engine trouble, they turned around to go back and crashed short of the runway in a field. Last I heard, all 17 were injured but only 3 remain hospitalized. The plane had a full load of fuel at the time as it was headed for Spain. No fire or explosion due to serious fire-supression systems in the fuel tanks(wings).

Damn, 68, I knew what that pic was before I even scrolled down. Strange how a hole in the ground could look so familiar.

I believe that flight 93 nosedived, whereas the C5 bumped,bounced and skidded to a halt.

[Sixty8panther]

I was more eleuding to a conspiracy... nothing like Michal Moore

tries to cook up but long these lines:

http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...?showtopic=6891