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The accident marked the second operational loss and first fatal crash for the C-5 Galaxy fleet, and is the third deadliest accident involving a U.S. military aircraft after the 1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown and Arrow Air Flight 1285R.
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
A cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport on Monday, November 25, 2024. - Andrej echurskij/Facebook. The cargo plane that crashed was a Swiftair aircraft “operating under contract for DHL ...
A Safe Air Cargo Douglas DC-7BF (N6314J) crashed on take-off at Yakutat, Alaska, United States, four crew killed. [17] 30 September An Aviateca Douglas DC-3 (TG-AKA) crashed on landing at Mundo Maya International Airport, Flores, El Petén, Guatemala, of the three crew on board one was killed and one seriously injured. [18] 19 November
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania has found no evidence of terrorism or sabotage so far in its investigation of a DHL cargo plane crash near Vilnius airport, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The aircraft's ...
The cargo plane that crashed on Monday was a Swiftair aircraft “operating under contract for DHL,” the logistics company said in a statement to CNN. DHL said the plane “made a forced landing ...
The plane narrowly missed [clarification needed], sliding on the area and in the process, hitting a two-story house in the Liepkalnis neighborhood, approximately 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi; 0.7 nmi) north of the airport, and crashed on its property, causing a fire that reached the house.