I am also a member and on the board of advisors for the Airlift/Tanker Association which Col. USAF (Ret) Bud Traynor is also a member. Realizing they could not reach the runway, the pilots working together leveled the wings, used full power to bring the nose up, and then cut power just before impact.The C-5 touched down at about 269 knots in a marsh two miles short of the end of the runway. All rights reserved. Furthermore, the flight crew confirmed that they had encountered difficulty closing the doors before take-off. They subsequently missed the locks during inspection and the aircraft was cleared for flight. A C-5A Galaxy, serial number 68-0218, flew the initial mission of Operation Babylift departing from Tan Son Nhut Airport shortly after 4 p.m. on April 4, 1975. The When the rear doors were eventually recovered from the sea, investigation determined that some of the locks had not engaged properly. He soon realized that he had limited control of his pitch with a combination of power and bank.Master Sergeant Raymond F. Snedegar, the senior loadmaster, went below and assessed the damage. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this blog contents without express and written permission from this site's author/owner is strictly prohibited. ®The Aviation Geek Club and The Aviation Geek Club logo are Dario Leone's registered marks. Dario Leone, Via Mazzini 45, 27030, Langosco (Pavia), VAT IT 02787650189Operation Babylift: the Crash of C-5 Number 68-0218 T… Dario Leone, Via Mazzini 45, 27030, Langosco (Pavia), VAT IT 02787650189 This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Due to the heroism of the medical team, there were 176 survivors of the crash. Clever, CINCPAC Hawaii, 1976. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviation Geek Club” one of the world’s most read military aviation blogs. Accounts also indicated the initial maintenance inspection noticed 5 of the 7 locks were not operating and failed the aircraft for flight. The aircraft rolled and skidded along the ground for about 1,000 feet, then became airborne again. She retired as a Colonel in 2007.Dario Leone is an aviation, defense and military writer. Tilford Harp used the only control method still available: asymmetric thrust of the engines. Twelve minutes after takeoff, there was what seemed to be an explosion as the lower rear fuselage was torn apart. All rights reserved. During the impacts and skidding, the cargo compartment totally disintegrated, killing most of the medical crew including Capt. When it hit the ground the second time, the C-5 began to break-up as it skidded for another 1,200 feet. The extra drag of the landing gears had reduced the airspeed to 230 knots, too low to maintain level flight. He asked the copilot to help with the pitch, but the copilot had no pitch control either. “We had one system powering the right aileron, that was an.” Malone later recalled. Capt. I was the crew chief of the C-5, 84-0059 that crashed at Dover on 3 April 2006 from 1994-1997. As the air pressure differential increased with altitude, the few locks that were working correctly were unable to bear the load, and the door failed.The story of the disaster was featured on the seventh season of the Canadian made, internationally distributed documentary series United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy, similar to the aircraft involvedThe crash date is widely reported as 3 April, 4 April, and 5 April, however newspaper reports from 1975 reference a Friday afternoon crash (4 April) and an official military history dates the crash as 4 April.The number of fatalities vary depending on the source, but official accounts state 138 of 314 on board were killed.Commander in Chief Pacific Command History: Appendix III: Babylift, Carl O. 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 1285. In early April 1975, with much of South Vietnam overrun by communist On the afternoon of Friday, 4 April 1975, C-5A, AF Ser. Klinker was the last female service member killed in Vietnam, and was posthumously awarded the Airman’s Medal. Maintenance records showed that locks had been cannibalized for spares, then subsequently improperly refitted so that not all the door locks were engaging correctly. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this blog contents without express and written permission from this site's author/owner is strictly prohibited. A rapid decompression occurred. It came to be known as Operation Babylift. For her actions that day, Lt. Aune became the first woman to receive the Cheney award. By boosting power on one wing, and cutting back on the other, they turned around and got back over land.Following the decompression, the crew donned their oxygen masks, began a left-descending tum. Captain Keith D. Malone, who was in the cockpit on his initial “check ride” in the C-5, described it as a “classic rapid decompression.” He recalled, “Ironically, we had just concluded a conversation about what we would do in case there was a This left the flight crew with no control over the rudder or horizontal stabilizer surfaces. Welcome to The Aviation Geek Club, your new stopover aviation place. The airplane broke into four parts: tail section, flight deck, troop compartment, and wing section. It remained airborne for about 2,700 feet, flying across the Saigon River. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. then notified flight controllers in Saigon of their condition and their return to Tan Son Nhut AB for an emergency landing. Other nurses and technicians prepared the children for a possible crash landing. Mary Klinker.Aune led the surviving members of the medical crew, and despite her own serious injuries repeatedly carried survivors nearby medevac helicopters, continuing until she collapsed. The aircraft then started a steep climb, and the airspeed dropped. They noticed that the pressure and the quantity in the number one and two hydraulic systems read zero. For their efforts, the flight crew was awarded the Air Force Cross. The crash site was in a muddy rice paddy near the Saigon River, one mile (1.6 km) from the nearest road. Dennis “Bud” Traynor and copilot Capt. If we got higher than that the aircraft would climb, if we got lower it would descend.”During the left descending turn the airspeed increased to 370 knots and nose of the C-5 began to rise.
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